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...slum neighborhoods. Most of the stores pillaged and destroyed were groceries, supermarkets and furniture stores; of Detroit's 630 liquor stores, 250 were looted. Many drunks careened down Twelfth Street consuming their swag. Negro merchants scrawled "Soul Brother"-and in one case, "Sold Brother" -on their windows to warn the mobs off. But many of their stores were ravaged nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Fire This Time | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...Flimsy Wisps. The action largely involved low-priced issues usually connected with such glamour industries as computers, electronics, equipment leasing and magnetic tape. Many of the companies are thriving splendidly, but others have little fundamental strength to support them. Lately, brokers warn, investors have been lunging after issues on flimsy wisps of news, sometimes even calling in orders without knowing the name of the "onics" stock they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Gamblers' Market | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...warn you against the idea that the Chinese specialists have some esoteric or mythical wisdom they can give you. I don't think anybody here buys that anymore. A China specialist is a fellow who's trying to work on this problem more than other people are, but in fact everybody in the country and not least the journalists of the United States are working on the China question. The problem is they don't have enough time for it. Now I think as we work on it from our end, there is one primary disability that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Employs 'Historical Perspective' To Understand Patterns in China Today | 7/18/1967 | See Source »

...into the kind of generalization that may not be socially scientific and may be just a seeking modern analogies which don't exist. You have to warn yourself and take these chances. I think there is a great deal of resurfacing of traditional features of Chinese life in the midst of all this effort to make everything new and different, and meet modern problems. When a brilliant study appears like, for instance, Bill Skinner's study of marketing structure--here's a man whom some of you have read. He shows that in any given area, the markets occur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Employs 'Historical Perspective' To Understand Patterns in China Today | 7/18/1967 | See Source »

Tongue Clicks. Gradually, Itō says, he began to acquire the instincts of an animal. The slightest change in the jungle's normal sounds would send him scurrying from his shelter into the brush, and he and his companions worked out a code of tongue clicks to warn each other of approaching danger. As Itō soon found, no place was really safe. The Chamorros, always armed and forever prowling through the jungles in search of stragglers, discovered his hiding place three times. They killed one of his mates in 1948 and nicked Itō himself with a bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Straggler's Ordeal | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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