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...Kissinger brought off his Rhodesian coup? "Personal charm," he quipped blithely to reporters in London. Not exactly; but to a large extent it was Kissinger's uncanny understanding of the realities of power, his shrewd timing, and his recognition that only the U.S. could play the role of catalyst that made it possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: A Dr. K. Offer They Could Not Refuse | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...using the School Committee as a soap-box and the busing issue as a political whipping boy, former committeewoman and current City Council President Louise Day Hicks is a case in point. For a decade the slogan of this shrill, shrewd, triple-chinned rhetoritician--"The people of Boston know where I stand"--has served as a code-word for one idea and one idea only: no blacks in our schools. Hicks talks a great deal about our children and our schools for a woman who sent all her charges to private and parochial schools, and you will hear more...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...using the School Committee as a soap-box and the busing issue as a political whipping boy, former committeewoman and current City Council President Louise Day Hicks is a case in point. For a decade the slogan of this shrill, shrewd, triple-chinned rhetoritician--"The people of Boston know where I stand"--has served as a code-word for one idea and one idea only: no blacks in our schools. Hicks talks a great deal about our children and our schools for a woman who sent all her charges to private and parochial schools, and you will hear more...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...arrests, was a triumph for Marcos as well as the greatest setback for the Communists since the breakdown of the old Huk guerrilla movement in the mid-1950s. The military announced that the big roundup would continue, its chief target now being the Communist Party's chairman and shrewd ideologue, José Maria Sison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILIPPINES: Operation Scorpio | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...cream without guilt. It's magic," says the hopeful proprietor of Yogurt Yogurt, an Alexandria, Va., shop opening this week. The magic began four years ago in Cambridge's Harvard Square. There, in a hole in the wall called the Spa, William Silverman, a shrewd merchant, began selling the already popular cultured-milk product in a frozen version and soon attracted long lines of blue-jeaned teeny-boppers and J. Pressed Harvard men. The lines are still there. From the Spa, frozen yogurt leapfrogged to Manhattan's trendy Bloomingdale's, and is now well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Let Them Eat Yogurt | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

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