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...jury. In praising the old values of diligence and thrift, he was really advising the blacks, in code language, to go and do likewise. He was asking the nearly impossible. The black has no parallel; he is neither stolid native nor willing immigrant. No historian, presidential or otherwise, can undo 300 years of social damage with the simple-minded caveat "America-Love It or Leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Emigrants: A Dream Survives | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

Heath's freeze sets an example for tougher action, and Americans will be watching it closely. If the British cannot cure their inflation, the pound most likely will continue to decline. If it falls too low other nations, particularly Italy, might make competitive devaluations. A string of devaluations would undo much of the advantage that U.S. foreign traders gained from last December's currency realignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: The Phase I Chill in Britain | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...revivals brought in many thousands of dollars unjustly. Even if Gortner didn't share in the cash (he does not tell us), a number of his unwitting con men colleagues did. Furthermore, there is no evidence that the profits from this movie are going, in any way to undo the exploitation Marjoe purports to expose...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Hallelujah | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

...rules, in a way I think is fair and honorable, I'll support him." Even so, the credentials challenge mounted by Humphrey and other anti-McGovern forces emerged as the potentially critical event of the election year. It seemed the one circumstance that could stop McGovern and thus undo the almost surrealistically effective crusade he has waged since the wreckage of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: A Setback for McGovern | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...Francisco Medical Center has a different approach. Removing no tissue and sealing the center of the severed vas by electric cauterization, he leaves the muscular wall of the tube intact. To reverse the procedure, Schmidt simply removes the scar tissue and rejoins the tube. Schmidt has attempted to undo vasectomies in 150 patients. Of these, 75% experienced resumption of sperm flow, while at least 25% succeeded in fathering children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 27, 1971 | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

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