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"When I saw on the television that the children were dead, I just couldn't take any more of it," recalls Williams, a housewife whose husband is a marine engineer now at sea off Canada. "I was sitting with my sister and a friend, all of us apathetic-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Pied Pipers of Peace | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

Ford, if nominated, has another predicament: Democratic Front-Runner Carter has turned the usual G.O.P. universe topsy-turvy. Carter runs strongest in the favorite Republican areas of the South and border states. Ford must decide whether to challenge Carter there by picking a running mate like Howard Baker or William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: SCRAMBLE FOR NO.2 | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

A Boy And His Dog, the first film to show at the new Galeria cinema, is based on Harlan Ellison's Nebula award-winning novella of the same name. The L.Q. Jones film version fails from the start; it's bad science fiction as well as bad cinematography. Ellison's...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: If Dogs Run Free... | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

He is different from everybody else, reclining on a European tour as frail aristocrats line up to beg for favors. He is the most powerful man in the world. Meanwhile, a black ragtime pianist, thought to be a Junatic, is holed up in J.P.'s library, ready to blow it...

Author: By Richard Tuhner, | Title: Playing Ragtime Slow | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

Much of the country's unpredictability owes to the mercurial personality of Chairman Mao. He is a romantic revolutionary who has an unsettling habit of turning China topsy-turvy every once in a while to prevent bureaucratic ossification and ensure the vitality of what he terms "continuing revolution." Bent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A Victory for Chou-and Moderation | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

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