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Pulling the String. The British were not unaware of what the Russians were up to. Though embassy and trade staffs of most big nations round the world are generally believed to shelter some espionage agents, the Soviet Union goes to extremes; a rule of thumb, at least in the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Spies Who Are Out in the Cold | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

Dubious Advice. Reuben employs his familiar casual coyness, strained informality, unconvincing case histories and weak jokes. There is also some sloppy scholarship and an occasional piece of dubious advice. For example, he gleefully quotes "a veteran police officer" who advises women threatened with imminent rape to take the assailant'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Reuben's Mixture | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

The chubby and cute Vietnamese children who play the leads hardly look as if they had been savaged by the war. Yet, if Coutard has been rather sloppy about realism, he is scrupulous in avoiding propaganda. He refuses to take sides. Hung overhears an American defending his country's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orphans of the War | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

Quite a few will go to no shows at all, some by choice, others deterred by old wives' tales. One myth is that the show you would like to see is sold out. Not true. There are only two sellouts, No, No, Nanette and Sleuth, and even in these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Pick of the Summer | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

That CBS moved some quotes cannot be disputed, but Stanton argued that this is a common journalistic tool employed to gain clarity and conciseness. Critics have a better argument about the quotation that was taken out of context. Here, Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Z. Henkin was shown replying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Stanton's No | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

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