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Officially the national government remained adamantly opposed to any integration. In a statement last week it warned: "Continual disregard for the law will have serious consequences. The government cannot allow organizations, whoever they are, to take the law into their own hands." Unofficially, however, the government is leery of taking on the Catholic Church, particularly after the international uproar about the Soweto rioting. Said one government official: "We're a pariah as it is. We don't want a quarrel with the Pope as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Challenging the Great White State | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...into the Académie Française or greeting a friend. Lately, the French have taken to kissing one another three times, alternately. Sometimes it goes on even longer. Says Régine Temam, a French librarian: "I never know when to stop now, so I just let whoever is doing it decide how long he wants to continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE GREAT KISSING EPIDEMIC | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...Isolated individualism is out." says Davis. "Today separations are not allowed. Everyone is expected to kiss everyone else." The human-potential movement has occasionally made a travesty of E.M. Forster's "Only connect!" From the hot tubs of Marin County to the baths of Esalen, the rule prevails: Whoever kisses you, you kiss back, lest you be thought to be uptight. At times, kissing carries a political message. Some feminists kiss other women on the lips in order to prove something about transcending sexuality. American men rarely kiss other men, unless they are father and son, or unless they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE GREAT KISSING EPIDEMIC | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...Rhodes: "I'm not pleased with the idea of members of Congress, who are in just two years at a time, having to give up all outside sources of income." A House reform task force is now drawing up a code of ethics similar to the commission recommendations. Whoever draws it up, a stricter set of ethics is certainly desirable. Even more urgently needed is a salary level that can attract and keep in Government people who do not require a code of conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: How to Get--and Keep-the Best | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...applaud TIME's giving credit to its staff members for the cover story on Charlie's Angels: Editor Martha Duffy, Critic Richard Schickel, et al. It is a pity the same generosity was not extended to whoever created the series. Starting from the blank page, Ben Roberts and I wrote the script and then produced the "slick pilot," which then became a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 13, 1976 | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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