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...correspondent-who had himself been held captive by Arab guerrillas for a few hours in May 1971 -provided valuable background information. Borrowing some lessons from old-style Chicago journalism, John Wilcox, a film producer for ABC Sports, donned a T shirt, U.S. track-team jacket and track shoes to sneak past the guards at Olympic Village and position himself in an apartment opposite Building 31. From his hidden vantage point, he radioed reports on the activities of the Germans and the terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Confusion in Munich | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...military barracks. Though the government distributes rice, there is never enough to eat, and women can be seen selling penny candy, gum, flashlight batteries, salt-anything to turn a small profit to fill out the spartan diet. When the bread trucks come, covered with flies, young boys sneak up, reach in and steal an extra loaf for their families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Refugees: Journey Without End | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...point of making her British stage debut in J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose with a repertory troupe in Manchester. Mia's two-year-old twin boys will be staying with her, but if Husband Andre Previn wants to see the play, he will have to sneak into the theater. "I have a horror of anyone I admire watching me act," says Mia. "I have made him promise not to let me know when he comes." Does this presage more footlights in her future? Well . . . "I'd love to play Viola in Twelfth Night and Strindberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1972 | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...reform of a careless young dock worker, whose mistakes were compounded by a grumbling, bourgeois warehousekeeper. Now the opera has been rewritten to make the warehousekeeper the main villain; he has been upgraded to a traffic-control man, and is an active saboteur. At the end he tries to sneak aboard a "foreign freighter" from "northern Europe" but is captured after a fight. This would change a major detail in the story of Lin's attempted defection. The opera says, in effect, that he was intercepted trying to board the aircraft that crashed in Mongolia, and was arrested after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Lin on the Boards? | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...likely to do best; the trouble is, those are the areas where Wallace is strong. As for Wallace, he has no fixed plan. He simply invites the folks who love him best to come out and vote for him. No doubt they will, but Muskie or Humphrey may sneak by George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: How to Run for President in 1972 | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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