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...Abel last month not to waste money trying to re-elect Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Watson's implication was that oilmen have marked Harris, a former Democratic national chairman, for political extinction. They have never forgiven Harris for voting against one of their favorites, Russell Long, for Senate whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Antitrust: New Life in an Old Issue | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...Reporter-Researcher Margaret Boeth interviewed " reborn evoked in Greenwich Village - an assignment that evoked memories of her girlhood in Cleveland, Miss. "I haven't seen this kind of hard-rock fundamentalism," she says, "since I used to sit on a ditch bank and watch the traveling, trembling preacher whip up a crowd." When Boeth interviewed Evangelist Arthur Blessitt in New York, she learned that they were from the same part of Mississippi and that Blessitt had once led a congregation in her home town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 21, 1971 | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...will be able to use U.S. medical instruments and American-made road rollers and pavers, drive U.S. passenger cars and motor scooters, or cruise up the Yangtze in boats powered by American outboard motors. Chinese housewives will be able, if their government does not deem it too decadent, to whip up sweet cakes with U.S.-made mixers and enjoy the marvels of American household appliances. Chinese office buildings and department stores will be able to install American elevators, escalators, furnaces and air-conditioning equipment. In a bid for U.S. grain sales to China, Nixon annulled the old "50% clause," which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Shopping List for Peking | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

Crack the Whip. She practices her father's religion during business hours only. Whereas Carlo was a lifetime lira-pincher who often rode the trains third class and packed his own lunch, Anna lives the life of an empress after work. She maintains an 11th century palace, a hunting lodge and a sumptuous apartment, all crammed with priceless paintings. She keeps her figure trim, dresses elegantly, and entertains salons full of jet-setters and visiting royalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Lady Magnate of Milan | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

...voice in the wildly malapportioned legislature than its population warranted, Askew was one of the leaders for reapportionment. He gained a reputation for sincerity and fair play; that, coupled with his promise of tough tax, welfare and prison reform measures, helped him through the primaries and then easily to whip incumbent Republican Governor Claude Kirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Four Men for the New Season | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

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