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...Aviv's Lod International Airport last May and trying to bargain for the release of 117 imprisoned fedayeen. It was sheer luck that only one passenger was killed when Israeli security men stormed into the plane with guns blazing to end the extortion attempt. Three weeks later, a trio of machine-gun toting Japanese radicals working for the fedayeen killed 26 tourists and wounded 85 inside Lod International Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Rescuing Hostages: To Deal or Not To Deal | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...Johnson's insistence, neither staff nor reporters were invited. Johnson greeted the candidates in ranch clothes and a flowing, whitish Buffalo Bill mane. Sitting in lawn chairs beneath a towering oak as they sipped iced tea, then going inside the ranch house for a steak lunch, the trio chatted for almost three hours. L.B.J. offered some campaign advice: talk to people on the phone for at least two hours every day; make sure you get a solid nap every day in your pajamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Making Up | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...smooth, 'lyrical' way. Thus the movement was robbed of both the intended contrast of the alternating elements, and the overall unity inherent in similarly-executed repetitions of the rhythmic ostinato figure. The scherzo, marked presto, was played too slowly to bring off the abundant rustic humor, while the trio, undoubtedly intended to be the lightest moment in this quartet, became a curiously contemplative "solo" for first violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi. In the final movement, Haydn employs the admittedly questionable device of recapitulating in the parallel major what had been rather serious material in G minor. The pompous ritard prior to this...

Author: By Stephen E. Hefling, | Title: Chocolate Sauce on Asparagus | 8/1/1972 | See Source »

...long ago, a small-time Tokyo businessman named Tadao Nakata hit upon an idea that he hoped would bring him, as he later put it, "tons of money for the future." He contracted with a California publisher to import 10,000 copies of a grossly prurient quarterly called Trio, which billed itself rather improbably as "a cultural, scientific and sociological publication." Yet even though Nakata had the printers take an air brush to some of the more explicit photographs, Japanese officialdom was outraged. First, customs authorities forced Nakata to have 37 "undesirable" spots in each copy daubed with ink before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Decline of Sex | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...money was to go into a trust fund for the education of the astronauts' children. The astronauts be gan to feel a bit queasy about the arrangement and finally cancelled plans for the trust fund. They never actually profited from the sale. Still, NASA officially reprimanded the trio and suggested that their future assignments were in jeopardy. Irwin has already announced his retirement, and Worden is being eased out of the space program. But Scott was reportedly in line for a general's star, and the job of chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lunar Rip-Off | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

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