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Prine's balladeering also includes social comment, as in Sam Stone, a song about a veteran returning from "the conflict overseas with a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back." The chorus is a quasi lullaby from a child's perspective: "There's a hole in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Blue-Collar Blues | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

State educational officials have let it be known that attendance at religious classes will be counted against youths who want to enter Czechoslovakia's overcrowded universities. The Czechoslovak press has launched an all-out attack on religion in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular. In Bratislava, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Tightening Up the Communist Bloc | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

Although this particular cross-country trip is fictional, the inconveniences experienced by the passengers and crew are all too real. In an age when man can rendezvous and dock spacecraft high above the earth, travel to the moon with pinpoint accuracy and send payloads to much more distant targets in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expressways in the Sky | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

Secretary General Strong proved to be a masterly diplomat in dealing with such difficulties. Traveling constantly, the self-made millionaire (he once headed the huge holding company Power Corp. of Canada) convinced the wealthy nations that "the environment is indivisible" and is not the exclusive concern of the rich. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Whole Earth Conference | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

For Italians la dolce vita has turned as harsh and unpleasant as the unseasonably cold and wet Roman spring. The economic miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: What Ever Became of La Dolce Vita? | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

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