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(Have you noticed this Times obsession with Yale of late? Their second front page talks of little else. I've read that Yale has girls now. They even live in the same dormitories, though in different entryways. There aren't very many, but as Kingman Brewster so aptly put it...

Author: By (this Article and Michael E. Kinsley, S | Title: The Greening of Yale | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

A "sugar obsession" characterized Cuba's new line. Despite warnings of economists that a ten million ton zafra [harvest] in 1970 was unattainable (Dumont argued that 1975 would be a more realistic date for such a goal), Castro made it a matter of honor to fulfill the revolution's goals...

Author: By Tom Crane, | Title: CUBA'S WOES Fidel's Sugar- Ups and Downs of Revolution | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

To look at an image like Campbell's Soup Can, 1965, is not to see it through Warhol's eyes-he has eliminated all idiosyncrasies. There is no contagion of personality. What remains is the flat, mute face of an actuality presented as meaning nothing beyond itself. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man for the Machine | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

Not so elsewhere. In Europe and, above all, in Asia, table tennis is definitely a big-league sport and sometimes a national obsession. Japan, which began to dominate international competition shortly after World War II, has an estimated 40,000 tournament players. Former Japanese table-tennis greats like Ichiro Ogimura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fastest Wrists in the East | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

FROM the early days of the Republic, when Thomas Jefferson backed Inventor Eli Whitney's design for mass-produced muskets with interchangeable parts, public support for technological progress has been an American tradition. Out of this tradition has grown an obsession with speed, a consequence of the nation'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Slowdown in the Technology of Haste | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

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