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Psychopolitical Ploy. Many conservative Republicans who abhor controls would welcome decisive measures instead of soothing words. The best evidence suggests that Nixon and his advisers believe that their economic course is right and that things will eventually improve. But the suspicion that their public optimism is a psychopolitical ploy will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Economic Blues | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

O'Horgan's Lenny uses Bruce, played by Cliff Gorman, as a symbol to illustrate how America silences her rebels. Abetted by elaborate theatrical masques and imaginative staging, Lenny attempts to be a frenzied morality play, acting out Bruce's wildest fantasies and using his own words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bruce Boomlet | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

Quick, now, basketball fans, who is the best college forward in the country? Sidney Wicks of U.C.L.A.? Well, some pro scouts insist that unpublicized Travis Grant of Kentucky State can shoot circles around Wicks. How about the best guard? Wrong again-not Austin Carr of Notre Dame. Those in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thinking Small Pays Big | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

This season the N.A.l.A. has nurtured a host of prospects who figure to make it in the pros, including Greg Northington, a 7-ft. 1½. center from Alabama State who averages 20 rebounds per game; Georgetown's Ken Davis (32-pt. average); and Mike Ratliff, a rugged 6...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thinking Small Pays Big | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

* McGee is the creation of John D. MacDonald, author of over 50 novels as well as the twelve-volume Travis McGee series, who is one of the last-and best-practitioners of what used to be called the hard-boiled school of crime fiction.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Working the Vein | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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