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THE ENERGY CRISIS: We will have to undergo an unpleasant period now because the Arabs have oil. I think America is strong and wise enough not to be dictated to just because of oil from the Arab countries.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Waiting in the Wings | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

Sometimes Too Much. The overwhelming impression of most visitors to the U.S. seems to be one of friendliness. "People are easy to talk to here," says Sune Nilsson, 24, a student from Sweden. "You can just say 'you' to anyone, whereas in Sweden people like to be called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: This Must Be the U.S. | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

Americans were there to give the Vietnamese a chance to make American-style democracy work. If the Vietnamese would not or could not do this, the United States could withdraw without losing anything except a few sacred ideals and a few of the war industries that were keeping the economy...

Author: By Seth M. Kufferberg, | Title: Watergate and the Indochina War | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

Erdman, who grew up in the Midwest, exudes a boyish enthusiasm. He seems to be an irrepressible doer. Be fore leaving jail, he had not only writ ten the novel but revamped the prison library system and persuaded the war den to paint the cells in cheerful col ors. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bullion Cubed | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

No other play by Shakespeare has elicited such a wide spectrum of appraisals. It has become customary to group the work with the two that immediately preceded it--Troilus and Cressida and All's Well That Ends Well--as "dark" or "unpleasant" or "problem" comedies. The 19th century was generally...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Philip Kerr Excels in 'Measure for Measure' | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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