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As Katz points out, Connally and Johnson were polished politicians, adept at their art, and in that way much unlike their successors, Smith, Mutscher, and the rest, whom the author calls "second stringers." Only one man among them Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, seemed to be cast directly from the Johnson...

Author: By Harry Hurt, | Title: Shadow' on the Alamo | 9/26/1972 | See Source »

A FEW WEEKS AGO Newsweek's letters section carried a complaint from a reader claiming that the reviewer's disclosure of the plot of Frenzy had completely spoiled the picture. However, a good movie can't be destroyed by the revelation of its plot. If this were so it would...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: The Other Thriller | 8/8/1972 | See Source »

Many of the other men who once dominated the game make Bobby Fischer look like an Eagle Scout. Arrogance? World Champion Alexander Alekhine (1927-35, 1937-46), a Soviet expatriate renowned for his slashing attacks, was a Nazi collaborator who wrote a series of articles claiming that Jews spoiled the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of the Brains | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

Having written a dozen letters of protest in as many weeks, and having returned to stores spoiled chicken and dispensers that failed to dispense, we are left with small vic tories, much unnecessary mileage, enormous frustration. We'd throw in the pen. but this is the one that always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1972 | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

Sir / I was very disappointed that such a splendid issue of TIME should have been spoiled by the one-sided attack on the Anglo-French supersonic Concorde [May 291.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1972 | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

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