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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diplomatic standings will change in the coming era, some up, some down. The Soviet Union's smooth-talking Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin will rate lower. So will former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and certain diplomats from the Third World. Henry Kissinger, former everything, will step a notch up. So will Anwar Sadat's skillful Washington envoy Ashraf Ghorbal. Spies are back, and the Carter Administration will not be using the word love quite so often or in quite the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

After the world has been steeped in the preaching of Khomeini, the traditional American political flaws of booze, sex and money will not seem quite so bad, predicts the American Enterprise Institute's Ben Wattenberg. "Libertines will get a boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Hayden take their tour today," he mused. Many more television programs and movies are being submitted to the armed services for consultation and technical advice. Marines are going to be good guys again on film. Says one officer: "We have learned there are some things in this world you cannot solve with a bumper sticker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...military-industrial complex is in subterranean motion. Within hours of the start of the crisis, men from Lockheed, makers of the giant C-5A troop and equipment airlifter, were in Secretary of Defense Harold Brown's office, reviewing the American capacity to move military forces around the world. And engineers and tacticians from Boeing and McDonnell Douglas scurried to the Pentagon with the announcement of plans for a Marine Rapid Deployment Force. The current official vocabulary has to do with American bases abroad, overflight rights with friendly countries, aerial refueling capacity. The adrenaline is flowing, but there are some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...this rate the gin martini may be embraced next by the Georgia White House. That's O.K. There is a body of opinion that the world worked better before men took to mineral water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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