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...away from assuming increased military responsibility. Though not wanting Japan to become a nuclear power, the U.S. would like it to spend much more on conventional armaments and exert more political influence in Asia. But Sato and Fukuda emphasized that they prefer to stay comfortably under the U.S. security umbrella for the time being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Trying to Make Up with Japan | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

Jodorowsky is similarly humble in the titles he gives to the four sections of the film: "Genesis," "Prophets," "Psalms," and "Apocalypse." "Genesis" begins with a man in black leather (Jodorowsky) riding on a black horse across the desert. A black umbrella shades his head from the sun. Behind him in the saddle sits his naked son, white against his father's blackness. They stop and father says to son in a deep, forboding voice that lets you know he's saying something heavy. "Now you are a man. You are seven years old. Bury your first toy and your mother...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: For A Few Icons More | 12/1/1971 | See Source »

Joan Tighe, media relations staff member of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ) said yesterday that the new apathy has compelled a reordering of Movement priorities. The PCPJ was an umbrella group sponsoring the proposed rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace Group Cancels Sit-in; Activism Ebbs | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

There are three things that every Englishman seems to have: a pet, an umbrella and a Lew Grade story. As Britain's most prominent show-business entrepreneur, jowly, Goldwynesque Lew Grade enjoys a following that is not so much doting as anecdoting. His custom-made, 7¾-in. Cuban cigars are an indispensable prop of cartoonists. His multimillion-dollar deals get him lampooned as "Low Greed" in the satirical magazine Private Eye. He even has his own favorite story about himself. It concerns a little girl who asked him if he knew what two and two make. "Buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Top Grade | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

Their slim draft of about a dozen pages, a so-called "umbrella agreement," will probably be worked over for months before the Big Four Foreign Ministers finally sign a Berlin Protocol. The ambassadors will meet once again early this week. Then, barring a last-minute hitch, they will dispatch the draft document to their governments for approval. Once that is secured, officials of the two Germanys and the two Berlins must hammer out the final details concerning access to the city and travel between West Berlin and East Berlin and between West Berlin and East Germany. The whole fragile structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Berlin: Shaping Agreements | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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