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...raise money for fellowships that will enable promising but underprivileged youths to work alongside leaders of their own causes (a young farm laborer, for example, might work alongside Cesar Chavez, the evangelistic leader of migratory workers in the Southwest). "Ethel's the kind," says one associate, "who wouldn't shrink from getting involved with such groups as the Black Panther organization in Chicago." Ethel agrees: "You could always play it safe; take on projects that couldn't fail and no one could criticize. But that isn't the way Bobby lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 25, 1969 | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...Navajos sovereignty within their reservation for as long as the grass shall grow and the rivers run. Since then, 100 years have swept across the parched Arizona buttes. Now the grass grows sparsely, and water must be hauled from distant wells. As the Navajos' population expands, opportunities shrink. Young men go away. Elders lose esteem. By passed by white progress, the Navajos clutch the tatters of their treaty promises and watch the old ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Revolt on the Reservation | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Only two dozen sailors have duplicated Slocum's feat-and many of them like Britain's Sir Francis Chichester, made the most of the resulting publicity. Eddy belongs to a different crew. For him the most satisfying sport in the world is to shrink his world to the size of a cruising sailboat and to enjoy that world at leisure. Unlike Sir Francis, who made only one stop on his 275-day voyage, Eddy spent 51 casual years visiting some 400 ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising: 5 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...countries whose exports have risen fastest are Germany, Italy and Japan, which already have substantial balance of payments surpluses. If the major deficit countries, the U.S. and Britain, actually succeed in curtailing imports and expanding exports, the world's main source of reserves to finance trade will shrink. Under today's monetary system, with nations free to pursue conflicting policies, the world can only look forward to one crisis after another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: CRISIS EASED BUT NOT ENDED | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...trooper watching the sppeeding radar on the Conn Pike hears the beginning of "Honey" by Bobby Golsboro on the radio, which distracts him from someone doing 85 in the passing lane. You're doing 73 in the middle lane; but you're next. When you get a ticket, you shrink your ego: to minimize the penalty you go humble and let the cop score his subconscious anthropological victory by asserting himself over you. On an emotional level, you feel tiny. This is the night someone telephones to ask you to be editor of the Saturday Review. Because you're then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Life etc. | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

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