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...hunt for Patty Hearst, Bates, who earns $36,000 a year, customarily rose at 5:30 a.m. each day. For lack of time, he gave up hunting and cut back on weekend golf. Says his wife: "The Hearst case has just consumed our life. This removes a 50-pound weight." Now Bates can return to his normal routine, unless he decides to take one of several job offers in private business. But he may well stay on in the FBI. Explains Bates, who habitually wears on a gold chain four service pins for 10, 20,25 and 30 years with...
...Israelis make a fairly strong case for their need for these advanced weapons. In pulling back from their present positions in the Sinai, Israel's military men-drawing on lessons learned in the October war-are revising their tactics to get more punch for the Israeli pound from a smaller army using more advanced technology. Even as Israeli forces in the Sinai began their preparations for a pullback last week, Chief of Staff General Mordechai Gur talked about the new positions they will take up. At a briefing at Bir Gifgafa in the Sinai, attended by TIME Correspondent Donald...
...today's standards of taste, John was certainly a minor artist. He sinned by missing the historical bus. The peculiar complexities, doubts and unfamiliarities of living in the 20th century had radically altered the historical sense of a whole generation of artists. Pound and Joyce no less than Picasso, Stravinsky or André Breton. John, however, continued to paint like a swashbuckling hedonist. His drawings of the figure had dash and virtuosity, even in his student years at the Slade School. He was, in the view of friends like Sir William Orpen, the inordinately successful painter, the best draftsman...
...appears before the Avedon camera gets a guarantee of sympathetic treatment. Ezra Pound is captured as a tortured soul. Avedon is gentle with Marilyn Monroe, but Oscar Levant is shown as a fading Neanderthal man. The 40-ft.-wide mural of the eleven-member American Mission Council to Saigon (TIME, April 21) during the Viet Nam War (including General Creighton W. Abrams and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker) can be used as a Rorschach test, asking the viewer to make a judgment of the members' guilt or innocence...
...portion of taxable income over $38,000. This compares with a 70% maximum rate on taxable income over $100,000 in the U.S. Even in socialist Sweden, the highest tax rate is 69%. And when they venture abroad, Britons find that their money buys increasingly less; last week the pound was worth $2.10, v. $2.35 only last...