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HARRY'S MENTAL and physical fitness is the chief weakness of the film. Art Carney makes Harry lively, sharp-tongued, and open-minded; his performance is excellent but he does not portray an old man, only a young man who happens to be 75 years old. Harry and Tonto thus...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Grandma Moses Jokes, Anyone? | 9/25/1974 | See Source »

We take this position despite the weakness or irrelevance of some comparisons and arguments frequently advanced as reasons for amnesty. For example, when it seemed as though Congress or later Ford might pardon Richard Nixon and repatriate America's exiles in some sort of package deal, a number of commentators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amnesty | 9/24/1974 | See Source »

Solberg could be described as a post-revisionist. He well recalls the sigh of relief when American soldiers came home in 1945. The U.S. had, he contends, two deep-seated fears: another Great Depression and another sneak attack like Pearl Harbor. Then came the shocking news that "Uncle Joe" Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wounds and Ironies | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

Will Run. The choice of Rockefeller set off speculation that Ford would run for President in 1976 and Rockefeller would be his running mate. Rather than discourage such talk about his future, Ford disclosed through Press Secretary J.F. terHorst that he "probably" will run in 1976, though he gave no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: A Sure Touch in Ford's Second Week | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

With declarative simplicity, The Connoisseur traces Muhlbach's plunge into a world where everyone is "into" some sort of object: wicker baskets, pre-Columbian bowls, Oriental sculptures, early American leg irons. His new acquaintances are sharks, nuzzling through dealers' galleries, circling fiercely at auctions. With cold passion, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Getting and Spending | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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