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A new wave of terrorism, in which seven died, put Northern Ireland on the verge of a grim and unwanted millenary last week. The fatalities raised the total number of people killed in the smoldering civil conflict since 1969 to 998. In addition, 28 were wounded in bombings by extremists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Toward a Grim Millenary | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

The operators see no quick way out of their bind. "We need 50? a lb. to break even," says Bill Webster, president of the Colorado Cattle Feeders Association, "but at just that level the consumer seems to stiffen. We can't sell there." In similar circumstances executives in other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Price Squeeze on the Feed-Lots | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

H.R. HALDEMAN, 47. As Nixon's stern chief of staff, the former California advertising executive once noted on a memo returned to a White House aide: "I'll approve of whatever will work and am concerned with results?not methods." The most formidable guardian of Nixon's Oval Office, Haldeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Seven Charged, a Report and a Briefcase | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

Sir / I fear that casual abortion will lead to worse evils than unwanted children do, but laws denying abortion only to the poor constitute class discrimination. I wish all that energy could be directed toward finding a safe, sure method of birth control.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1974 | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Rockefeller's influence is still felt in Exxon. He began selling overseas when the industry was still a handful of wells in Pennsylvania turning out a product that was refined mostly into kerosene burned in lamps (gasoline was then an unwanted byproduct). Early on, Stan dard Oil boasted that

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Exxon: Testing the International Tiger | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

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