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"Sweet reasonableness" has not at last prevailed in the Vietnam negotiations, however. There is still a threat that "an unpleasant military surprise" awaits Americans in Vietnam in the next few days and that the U.S. plans to bomb Hanoi with B-52's. In the wider Southeast Asian frame, the...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: The Plot Thickens | 10/25/1972 | See Source »

Thus the welcome-home at New York's Kennedy International Airport was clouded by recriminations. Understandably, the Pentagon insisted that the released pilots were still U.S. officers and should immediately enter military hospitals for medical checkups and debriefings. But its handling of the matter was often clumsy. Even before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS OF WAR: Bittersweet Homecoming of Three Pilots | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

While Eleanor was playing the themes, Pat was off playing the heartstrings in her self-appointed role as Dignified First Lady, above and removed from politics. Flying in a presidential 707 with nine White House staffers, six Secret Service men, one hairdresser (on loan from Elizabeth Arden) and 30 reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Those Other Campaigners, Pat and Eleanor | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

The conception of Judas as hero evolves, moreover, with what used to be called a fruitful ambiguity, leaving the reader to ponder the author's real intent. For while Judas begins as a humanist hero and Della Paresi is clearly a villain, it becomes progressively clear just how much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ecce Homo | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

Hibben sacks his seamy past for a clue to her identity, or any inkling of how she got into his apartment and his life. His exwife, his son, his parents, even his psychiatrist-all appear to Hibben in his delirium, prodding him inexorably toward the unpleasant Krafft-Ebing revelation concealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clues and Refunds | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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