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AMERICAN NOTES Keeping Secrets No one knew. Barring some so-far undetected insight by a journalist, diplomat or gypsy fortune teller, Henry Kissinger's excursion to Peking was a stunningly well-kept secret. Ironically, Kissinger's coup came at a time when the Pentagon papers had provoked new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Keeping Secrets | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

Ransom. There was no doubt however, that the Communist plan was a skillful effort to capitalize on America's weariness with an unsuccessful war. The President might be inclined to dismiss the whole package as too one-sided, but because of that one good egg in the basket - the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The War: Stirrings at the Peace Table | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

He lives inconspicuously: the Mala equivalent of the man in the gray flannel suit. A conservative if stylish dresser, he looks the part of the conventional real estate salesman that he claims to be. His split-level home in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, his two unmarried sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Capo Who Went Public | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

HOW WAS THE RELEASE OF THE PAPERS ORCHESTRATED? They were not handed from one editor to another in collusion to keep a step ahead of the Government bans. Nor could a single man, even the brilliant and dedicated Ellsberg, be handling the entire distribution. It seemed likely that Ellsberg was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ellsberg: The Battle Over the Right to Know | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

With a less skillful choreographer, or a less disciplined troupe, Bach's music might have inspired little more than energetic exercise or personified precision. Robbins has caught the passion that underlies Bach's formal rhythms, notably in the serpentine, body-entangling duets of Patricia McBride and Helgi Tomasson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic Achieved | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

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