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...fight over a polluted lake. This month's cover photo is a stark snow scene; the story tells of winter life in Siberia. Inside, other striking color pictures illustrate a variety of lively stories that explore everything from contemporary culture ("Cross-country with Shakespeare") to offbeat Americana (Tom Thumb's wedding and the love life of George Washington...
...economic crisis were not enough, London was hit last week by a new series of letter and car bombings. The first incident occurred when Brigadier Michael O'Cock, 54, an aide-decamp to Queen Elizabeth, opened a parcel at his London home and had part of his thumb blown off. Next day a bomb planted in a car near Westminster exploded shortly before 9 a.m., injuring 54 people. Police attributed the bombings to an apparent last-ditch effort by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army to sabotage installation Jan. 1 of Northern Ireland's new coalition...
...lies principally on two sets of shoulders: the Arabs' and our own. As any veteran Nixon-watcher would guess, he is guilty of errors of both omission and commission here. America is in a crisis, he announces gravely: The crazed Arabs, endowed only with anatomical fortuity, have put their thumb astride our jugular. These are not familiar, white-skinned Europeans, polite Belgians or Dutchmen, who will calmly accede to our reasonable requests. These are berobed bedouin upstarts, mustachioed bandit sheiks, out to black-mail Uncle Sam till his back--or at least his foreign policy--is up against the wall...
ROBIN HOOD is a pleasant enough animated holiday party from the Disney studios. As usual, the villains take the day. Prince John, the regent, is a craven brat, a lion whose crown keeps falling down over his floppy ears and who, in times of stress, sucks his thumb and whimpers for his mother. His consort, Sir Hiss, is a snake in charge of the royal treasury and of soothing the prince...
...year later, he went back to Hamilton, then to Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where he earned a B.A. in business administration. He and a girl friend took off for five months of thumb-tripping and odd-jobbing in Yugoslavia. He returned to get a master's degree in public administration from Syracuse University and decided to become a spy. He went to Washington to offer himself to the CIA, but it was 1953, the McCarthy era, and after one look at his record, "the guy at the CIA laughed and told...