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Crucial Command. The most note worthy transfer was of Li Te-sheng, 61, the army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Shifting the Generals | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Sir / I do hope that those people who willingly sacrifice a great deal when they contribute to various worthy charities will not become too discouraged after studying Mr. Nixon's record of giving that totaled a whopping $295 of his rather sizable salary and income in 1972.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1974 | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Despite that outcome, Sirica has been severely criticized by some legal authorities for using the provisional-sentencing procedure as a device to get the defendants to cooperate with investigators. "We must be concerned about a federal judge ?no matter how worthy his motives or how much we may applaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Judge John J. Sirica: Standing Firm for the Primacy of Law | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Kleppe blasted back that the Congressmen were indulging in "McCarthy-ism," and he can indeed point to some real accomplishments by the agency. Under his tenure, the SBA has encouraged local lenders to make high-risk loans backed by a 90% federal guarantee; four times as many such loans were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Minding Small Business | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

Social essayists have a habit of calling California "the cutting edge of the future"-a cautionary model of what the U.S. might become if and when it finally degenerates into a transcontinental landscape of neon, plastic, and religious eccentricity. Californians tend to look back the other way, over their shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: West of the Sun | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

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