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Summer has traditionally been a time of trauma for the pets of France. Left behind by vacationing owners who believe that animals, like some good wines, do not travel well, they have languished in crowded kennels, often going on hunger strikes or catching troublesome diseases. For many French pets, those weeks of anguish are now a thing of the past. For about $3 per day, a new pet vacation club will find a pet-loving, nonvacationing family that will take in a cat or a dog-or even a parakeet or snake-during the owner's absence...
Traumatic Memory. In scene after scene, the crowded past spills into the empty present: his parents' rather fierce love, the trauma of their arrest, the long period when the children were boarded in a public home, stealing newspapers for news of the trial, the final family reunions in the death house. Rochelle is the stronger of the parents, a warm, gallant woman. Paul is a tendentious intellectual "who would never believe that America was not the cafeteria at City College...
...congressional opinion about Communism." If Nixon and his predecessors, it now seems clear, had not spoken so often about the need for "victory" and the humiliation of "defeat," and had more coolly assessed the real stakes?as well as the terrible price?in Viet Nam, there would be less trauma over withdrawal and countless lives might have been saved...
...political use of them. And in the end both will suffer equally. 'For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.'" Richard Harris, it seems, would add to this list of fears men's fears of making decisions. For the Senate, the Carswell episode was a trauma in decision making. Senators fear the absence of politics. They fear a situation in which their decision would be based not on the dictates of politics, but drawn out of that fuzzy world of human merit. Decision making is a power that men shrink from. Men, and senators too, will...
...commencement time a year ago, U.S. campuses throbbed with antiwar protests, the trauma of student killings at Kent State and Jackson State. In 1971, the year-end mood is dramatically different. While seniors chase scarce jobs, the campuses face a mounting financial crisis that may change the shape of U.S. higher education. At the same time, student activists are switching from radical protest to privatism, piety and politics. After examining such trends across the country, TIME National Education Correspondent Gregory H. Wierzynski sent this report...