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Many Congressmen and Senators questioned whether the Government ought to come to the aid of any private company-large or small-with a record of sloppy management. The hardest blows were struck by Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee. A Texarkana Populist who detests both big city banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Biggest Bankruptcy Ever | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

Most of the time, that is. The preliminary trials are a time for making mistakes, a time to work out the kinks in boats and boatmen. In the opening races between the brand-new Valiant and the refurbished Intrepid, there were kinks aplenty. On the second leg of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Full Sail Ahead | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

For most of the past decade, West Germany's Bundeswehr has been justly known as "the orphan army." Though its authorized strength of 460,000 makes it NATO's largest European land army, it has been plagued by poor pay, rundown garrisons, manpower shortages (the Bundeswehr is below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Help for the Orphan Army | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

They should certainly avoid Richard Zorza's The Right To Say We: The Adventures of a Young Englishman at Harvard and in the Youth Movement (New York: Praeger, paper $2.25). Whatever things Zorza's book may have going for it, facts are not among them. Culminating all the sloppy inaccuracies...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: From the Coop Those Harvard Books | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

Shirley is kin to a long literary line of unworldly New World girls, starting with Daisy Miller, who have pitted their innocence against Old World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lost Lady | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

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