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One truck backed into the crowd of about 500 onlookers and dumped a load of mud, half burying a six-year-old child who was pulled out scared but unhurt. A bulldozer started the crowd scattering by rolling a massive pile of steel sewer pipes at it. While water wagons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Art v. Politics | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

But even here, there was no clear-cut division. Most of the members of the new Graduate School committees also belonged to the union. Conversely, imaginative Officials are as eager as Emerson could have wished to hitch their wagons to a star. Last spring, Quincy House was plastered with leaflets...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Officially Provisional: Student Politics | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

The Beatles became heroes to a nation of screaming little girls--little girls who pledged their hearts, proffered their bodies, and fainted in droves. "God, when you're 12, there's nothing else," remembers Melinda Rosenweig. "They were the first cute guys I was aware of--it was sort of...

Author: By Michiko Kakutani, | Title: Nostalgia for the Pepsi Generation | 8/13/1974 | See Source »

Not only have Americans fomented economic repression in Greece, but they have imported repressive instruments of a more disturbing nature as well. Reports leaked from political prisoners claim that bicycles, patrol wagons, iron wreaths used to squeeze skulls, wire whips, and blankets at the camps are marked "made in USA...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Crusted Blood of the Moon | 3/22/1974 | See Source »

Reader Phillips is correct-but only up to a point. The coinage was Grant's. The general first used the line in a wartime letter written from Spottsylvania on May 11, 1864: "I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, Mar. 11, 1974 | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

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