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The shooting lasted 18 minutes, and it ended with dreadful statistics; 13 Catholics had died and 17 others had been wounded. Among the victims, all between the ages of 16 and 41, was a father of seven children.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: The Bitter Road from Bloody Sunday | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

Until recently, if the father got custody of the children in a divorce case, most onlookers concluded that the mother had done something pretty dreadful. No longer. Divorce lawyers and family experts around the country are reporting a new byproduct of Women's Lib: the growing tendency of courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Who Gets the Children? | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Drawing for Stars and Stripes, the Army's newspaper, Mauldin was telling it like it is long before that dreadful phrase was invented (see cut). Mauldin also became a kind of ombudsman for the G.I. in his war with officers and gentlemen. When the general who administered Naples, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Willie and Joe | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

The lyrics are flat, the accompaniment tinny and the voices dreadful. But the theme song of TV's No. 1 family, the Bunkers, has been released both as a single record and as part of an LP, and it seems to be scoring with the same mass audience that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Scorn Along with Archie | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

The approach is unorthodox, but it works. The approach is interesting enough to keep the play going, without dragging even in the normally dreadful third act. The actors do interesting tricks with the phrasing, as when James Harris as Antony uses the line "Friends, Romans, Countrymen..." as a desperate attempt...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Julius Caesar | 1/11/1972 | See Source »

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