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Left for Scavengers. More than anything else, Grub is appalled at civilized burial customs. When he and his three-year-old friend Rebecca found a dead bird, she wanted to bury it. Says Jane: "He was horrified. He thought the idea of hiding something that had been alive under the earth was quite obscene." Grub, a proper jungle child, knew that dead creatures should be left for scavengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Chimps Instead of Spock | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...flick of a whim, causes a fountain to spurt 120 feet into the air from the center of a private lake? Johnson's house is a monument to the theatrics of neatness: only a bachelor could sustain such stark elegance at this pitch of obsession-one three-year-old child could reduce it all to chaos in ten minutes. It is perhaps the expression of a dilettante-in the classic sense of the word, a lover of the fine arts. It does need money, but it also demands concern. Johnson noted that the trunks of oaks turn dark after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Duke of Xanadu at Home | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Renaissance Party. The fanatical leaders of the Baath Party who run the Damascus regime have long been Nasser's hair shirt. The Baath (literally, Renaissance) originated in Syria during World War II, blending socialism with Arab nationalism. In 1961, they supported Syria's pullout from the three-year-old United Arab Republic, thus ending Nasser's dream of an Egyptian-led Arab bloc. Currently controlled by a minority Moslem faction under General Salah Jadid, who wields the real power over the party, Syria has been rocked by no fewer than 16 coups in the past 21 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: Blusterers and Brinkmen | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...Master's in literature when I graduated. Everywhere I went, though, they said the same thing: learn a little shorthand and you'll make a great secretary. So, what did I do? I became a great secretary and married the boss." She grabs her three-year-old down from the tree he is trying to climb. "I love my husband, you know, but I'm... so tired...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Striking for Equality Women's Lib Day in New York | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

..../Dragoti Ltd. Two films, Dirty Little Billy, a saga of Billy the Kid, and Spoiled Priests, about a Catholic priest who leaves his order, will go into production within the year. Most of the photographic, writing and editing talent for Billy will be drawn from the W.R.G. staff. Lois Holland Callaway's ventures are in keeping with the canny flamboyance of its president, George Lois. The three-year-old firm founded Mantle Men and Namath Girls, a glossy employment agency aimed at young job seekers. The placement agency's three Manhattan offices grossed $2,000,000 in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Beyond the Frontiers | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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