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...Says Kane: "You find out that he hears what he wants to hear. I talked to him one day in his motel. He was across the room, shaving, when I asked him what it would take to get him out of the presidential race. I feared he would slit his throat as he made a fuss over all the issues he has in addition to busing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 27, 1972 | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

Following that meeting, Moulton sent a letter to the tenants explaining that it would not be possible to block off the wall facing the tenants' building because the two-foot slit opening on each floor "provides the bare minimum amount of space to qualify under the requirements of a naturally-ventilated garage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garage Spurs Area Tenants' Dissatisfaction | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

Hardly anybody calls it sabotage-yet. But last October somebody deliberately set fire to an assembly-line control box shed, causing the line to shut down. Autos regularly roll off the line with slit upholstery, scratched paint, dented bodies, bent gearshift levers, cut ignition wires, and loose or missing bolts. In some cars, the trunk key is broken off right in the lock, thereby jamming it. The plant's repair lot has space for 2,000 autos, but often becomes too crowded to accept more. When that happens, as it did last week, the assembly line is stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sabotage at Lordstown? | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...Moore Jr. A church should not be used for "partisan political gatherings," remonstrates the magazine in an editorial, citing the availability of "Dump Nixon" pamphlets at the rally. What is more, the magazine complains, the crowds smoked, left beer cans in the pews, and even included a man with slit pants who was "free to parade in the church with his bare bottom exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...world holds no surprises for them. Murder is as casual as breathing. In The End of the Duel, two gauchos who hate each other are conscripted into the same army and taken prisoner by a malicious prankster who orders them to run a race after their throats have been slit. The winner never knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape to Reality | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

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