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The latest, known as the "death decree," threatens political demonstrators with trial by courts-martial and execution by a firing squad.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Trials and Errors | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Art Buchwald and Julie Andrews had to share equal billing at the American Booksellers Association convention lunch in Washington, D.C., with 9-Lives' finicky supersalesman Morris. The subject of an intimate biography by Chicago Journalist Mary Daniels, the big orange tiger basked in the warmth of the spotlights and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 17, 1974 | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

For 26 intense minutes, the dancers flit and fit around and into each other like a set of oiled and animated cork screws inspired by the Kama Sutra. Al though the form is that of classical dance, the positions are not. They are an exploration of every inch of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Start in Stuttgart | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

It was almost three years ago that Alsop discovered that he had leukemia, and doctors gave him roughly a year to live. But his disease proved atypical, and he lived beyond his allotted span. The best description the doctors could find for it was "smoldering leukemia," and between periods of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Instinct for the Center | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

Halevy: La Juive, highlights (Sopranos Martina Arroyo and Anna Moffo, Tenor Richard Tucker, Bass Bonaldo Giaiotti, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida conducting; RCA, $5.98). First performed in 1835, La Juive (The Jewess) is grand in style, massive in its demands for choral, orchestral and solo forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pick of the Pack | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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