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The finite and risky value of military power is clear proof that the U.S. must not see it as a substitute for sophisticated and imaginative attention to political, social and economic problems hi the area. Not that economic aid is a surefire remedy either. Besides, Levy observed: "I believe our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Searching for the Right Response | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

The question is how long Silverman has to make good. One of his old bosses, Bill Paley, thinks the test will come next fall; up to now he has not had time, so the argument goes, to show his stuff. Many others doubt that he can do much until the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

That, really, was the only reservation anyone could have about Ellington at Eight--at times it seemed more a showcase for the performers' undeniable talents than a celebration of Ellington's genius. Aside from the title and the song "Duke's Place," the show never referred to Ellington himself; neither...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Getting the Swing | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

Under the aegis of programming whiz Fred Silverman, NBC has promised, with great fanfare, to improve its original programming. At ten, I caught a pilot of Mrs. Columbo, a detective series about the wife of the character Peter Falk played. So much for originality. The story, however, was a moderately...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Toobs on the Tube | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

The Administration is clearly right in wanting to bury gold as a monetary reserve. It would be dangerous to make the official wealth of the world's nations dependent upon the erratic supplies of a metal that comes largely from South Africa and the Soviet Union, whose governments can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Boom in a Barbarous Relic | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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