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...proved an emotional experience, carried out in the dark recesses of bars like Randy's Randa-Vous and the Snake Pit. "All my goodbyes are taken care of," said Army Specialist Four Nelson Coffey, 29, of Portageville, N.Y. "I've paid my girl friend's rent till the end of the month and given her a couple hundred piasters so she'll survive. I guess if she can't hook up with a civilian soon, she'll go back to the rice paddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Goodbye, Saigon, Goodbye | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...heirs to their power. The budget currently gives the Administration an enormous implicit leverage and their professionalism gives them a predilection to use it. If that leverage still isn't decisive it is growing in importance, and with the current squeeze on the budget the men by the till are becoming more powerful...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: The Faculty: Divided and Dominant | 3/22/1973 | See Source »

...then sent in five to ten deprogrammers at a time to work on her. "They told me I was crazy, possessed by demons. They said I hated God, and tried to humiliate me. They gave me no rest at all." Patti says she was kept up sometimes till 3 or 4 in the morning and awakened as early as 6 a.m. The deprogrammers took turns sleeping by the door in her room to prevent her from escaping. She tried screaming for help, but when nothing happened she persuaded her captors to let her go to her brother's house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kidnaping for Christ | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

Psyche. Not jivin', but that may be hard to realize till we chase Freud out of the door, and Grier and Cobbs too unless they succeed in their efforts to free their psychological orientation from models of psychopathology, and come full-circle to re-definitions in conjunct with black culture. Nations consist of individuals, and for the time being, most individuals are shaped by the cauldron, or cesspool, or nest of their families, or the absence of family. No more visible chains on the body, the ultimate battleground is for the chains of definitions and fantasy that hang...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: Tryin' To Make It Real | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

Carlos was put in a "very proper" Buenos Aires boarding school, Nicolas Avellaneda. He says he stayed there till he was 15, acquiring the Spanish (he already spoke Italian and Portuguese) in which he would later interview Don Juan. But he became so unmanageable that an uncle, the family patriarch, had him placed with a foster family in Los Angeles. In 1951 he moved to the U.S. and enrolled at Hollywood High. Graduating about two years later, he tried a course in sculpture at Milan's Academy of Fine Arts, but "I did not have the sensitivity or the openness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

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