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That something persists today, and it remains one of angling's surest lures. Its name is failure. No matter how fine his equipment, no matter how limitless his patience, it is the angler who is cast most often as the poor fish. The odds, as always, still favor the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Sport of Fishing: The Lure of Failure | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

Because Walton is the dominant player and personality on the team, Wooden goes out of his way to maintain a good relationship with his center. It has not always been harmonious. "We've had our moments about haircuts and Bill's style of dress on the road," admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walton: Basketball's Vegetarian Tiger | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

It was a unique and poignant fragment for history. A President who stands in clear and imminent danger of impeachment faced the members of the House who may within weeks become his inquisitors and the Senators who may then have to decide whether he has been guilty of high crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: The President Performs Under Pressure | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

At week's end there was one slender hope for an eleventh-hour settlement. Reversing an earlier decision, Heath set a new meeting for this week with the Trades Union Congress, which represents 10 million workers, and the Confederation of British Industry, Britain's largest manufacturers' association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Miners' Tough Choice | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Probably none is forthcoming from the American people. Few Americans have not viewed the newsfilms, read the statistics or seen through the coverups of the Indochina war. Because of unyielding confidence in American virtue, they still underestimate the criminal significance. Electronic eavesdropping and official lists of enemies have imperiled our...

Author: By --thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: Nixon's Fall | 9/19/1973 | See Source »

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