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Mindful of this injunction, Bender quits school and goes to work so that his indolent brother Babe can have a college education. But Babe is fated to fail in business, while Irving succeeds as a bootlegger during the Depression and later as the owner of a summer camp in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irving's World | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

While Chairman Hua was cleaning up in Eastern Europe last week, his countrymen were having a little trouble with their own mop-up campaign back home. The press and radio-which normally tell only the good news-were reporting daily from the provinces that the long-running effort to wipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Dislodging the Remnant Poison | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

The typical Louis Auchincloss novel varies as the weather varies from year to year; some are stormier than others, some a degree or two more torrid, but there are few surprises. The Country Cousin, this year's offering, features a cast familiar to readers of his 20 previous works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Upper Classmates | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

British Sovietologist Peter Reddaway, a longtime observer of the dissident scene, believes that the human rights movement's links with religious minorities and ethnic groups like the Ukrainians give it a potential mass base. "An unpleasant period is ahead for the dissident groups, but I'm sure they will respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The Shcharansky Trial | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Poppers with a risky bang Amid the flashing strobe lights and pulsating beat of music in discos across the country, too many dancers are moving frenetically these days to the throb of their own physical highs. For them, Saturday night fever is heightened by a tiny amber bottle openly - and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rushing to a New High | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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