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Agnew's departure was not without the flourish of controversy that has become his signature. He personally picked an unusually small group of reporters to make the trip, and thus provoked another run-in with the press. Among the 34 publications that applied for space and were rejected were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: On Tour | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

The scenes involving the amusing low-life cronies Pistol, Bardolph, and Nym go well. Best of the bunch is Michael McGuire, who is (totes, and fires) Pistol. He has a fine comic sense, and spits out his consonants with relish. In his ludicrous run-in with the French soldier, though...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Anti-War 'Henry V' Is Fascinating Failure | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

At times, the new simplicity of funerals seems to verge on an almost mechanical austerity, in which the spiritual has little or no place. Not surprisingly, some undertakers are disturbed about the rising frequency of what they disdainfully dub the "run-in" or "disposal" funeral: the briefest memorial service, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ritual: A Changing Way of Death | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

One of the few full-time environmentalists in the world, Brower is Executive Director of the 60,000-member Sierra Club. The group began with an interest mostly in mountaineering and California, but grew as it became more and more vocal in battles over remaining hunks of wilderness. Stubbornness and...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: David Brower | 3/27/1968 | See Source »

Dalton of the Young Dems will be glad to find he has company. MRA seems to make a habit of using organizations' names without permission, and worse. In the Jan. 17, 1962 issue of Christian Century, a liberal religious magazine, a member of the Easton, Penn., Human Relations Commission relates...

Author: By James K. Glassman, COPYRIGHT 1967 BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON, INC. (FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES) | Title: MRA: Circumlocutions of Absolute Honesty; New York to Investigate Financial Status | 3/25/1967 | See Source »

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