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A Unifier. Humphrey benefits, of course, from the weakness of the competition. The seven announced candidates -Udall, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Jimmy Carter, Milton Shapp, Terry Sanford and Fred Harris -have not aroused any enthusiasm in an electorate supposedly yearning for a new face. And with Ted Kennedy repeatedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: From Defeat Rises a Free Spirit | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

"You construct the whole thing like planning a war. You can't win every battle. Even the best army has their weakness so make sure that weakness is used strategically so that the big battles you win."

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Chen Liang-Sheng | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

Chen has a weakness for these military analogies. Perhaps the correspondence between war, with its manipulation of armies, and music, with its manipulation of tones, suggests itself to him through his study of Tai Chi, one of the Chinese martial arts. Through these exercises, which teach a stylized and highly...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Chen Liang-Sheng | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

Most leaders went to some effort to refrain from upsetting the heady atmosphere of peace and détente with their speeches. But Harold Wilson delivered a blunt address that accurately reflected the views of Britain's Western allies. "Detente means little if it is not reflected in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Festive Finale to the Helsinki Summit | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

The weakness of the show is that the Busch-Reisinger is uncommunicative. The museum raises your curiosity but gives no explanations for the show's diversity or what it implies about the power of the school at its early stage. Most viewers won't come to the show with a...

Author: By Maud Lavin, | Title: A Puzzling Show of Support | 8/8/1975 | See Source »

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