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Illusory Freedom. It was not the first time since 1958, when "houses of tolerance" (but not freelance prostitution) were made illegal, that so many supposedly upright girls were caught in similar positions. In 1962, a group of 30 to 40 college girls from "good families" were discovered selling themselves for "pin money" in Rome. Just last year, the morals squad busted up a vice ring of 200 girls, who had to be beautiful, intelligent, from a high social class and multilingual to accommodate businessmen from Common Market countries. Many of the girls were happily married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Coffee for Every Taste | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...farmers into the social security system. At week's end he headed off to the desert regions of north central Mexico to launch a program for rehabilitation of one of the country's poorest areas. The real revolutionary, he had said in his inaugural address, is the upright public servant and the honest citizen, rather than the "dreamer of revolutions, the anarchist, the agent provocateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Digging Out | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...children of Haverhill, Mass. (pop. 45,000), are victims of neither poverty nor permissiveness. They are mostly sons and daughters of upright workers in the shoe factories of a New England mill town 40 miles north of Boston. Yet in the past month two anonymous notes from a "people's revolutionary tribunal" have been sent to the local school committee, threatening "death by bombing." Three high school boys, aged 15 and 16, have been arrested and charged with the manufacture and possession of "infernal machines" found in their basements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Child Guerrillas? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...unfulfills: a go-go dancer (Geri Miller), a sex-parched housewife (Andrea Feld-man), and last and by every means least, a raucous female impersonator named Holly (Holly Woodlawn). In the film's climactic scene, Holly stuffs a pillow under its sweater, feigning pregnancy to con an uptight, upright social worker out of welfare money. Those who can respect Trash will hasten Warhol & Co. to their ultimate alchemy, the recovery of gold from garbage. Stefan Kanfer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gland Tradition | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...Five Easy Pieces, Nicholson has retaken the high ground. He is Robert, an oil rigger, beering and wenching with the worst of them. One morning, caught in a traffic jam, Robert explodes. He clambers aboard a moving van, uncovers an old upright and begins playing a delicate Chopin fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Supergypsy | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

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