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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet spies had provided "a great deal of valuable information." Callaghan agreed with Heath, but allowed, with hindsight, that "the advice at the time about Blunt being allowed to stay in a palace post was wrong." And Callaghan added the icy comment: "I am bound to say that I think there has been a tendency to treat Mr. Blunt with kid gloves. Would Mr. Blunt have had the same treatment if he had been a humble corporal in the Royal Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Spy with a Clear Conscience | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...dominated by [Economist John Maynard] Keynes, and closely associated with his college, King's, notoriously combined culture, Communism and the love that nowadays all too readily dares to speak its name. Also in residence at King's, and also decisively homosexual, was the famous but, as I think, much overrated novelist E.M. Forster, who provided putative traitors with a serviceable formula for justifying their treachery by insisting that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying his friend, he hoped he would have the courage to betray his country. Burgess fastened eagerly onto this line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Eclipse of the Gentleman | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...People think I'm a big-shot movie star, and some of wr my friends have started to treat me differently. But I tell them I'm just like any other kid on the street. This hasn't changed me at all." It is easy to take fame when you're 80 or 8½, which Justin Henry is now. And his four-month plunge into the glamorous world of big stars and big movies affected him about as much as a summer at camp. It was, he insists, "no big thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kids a Real Natural | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...very good relationship with his real father, Cliff Henry, a portfolio manager for J.C. Penney. Another was that he had never acted before. Explains Director Robert Benton: "We didn't want anyone with bad habits." Still, after seeing the movie, audiences may be excused if they think he was born before the cameras, so true and so good is his performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kids a Real Natural | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

When he was required to cry, Justin would go off and think of sad things, like the possibility of some injury to his dog Chipper, a golden retriever. Once, just before he was supposed to turn on the tears, he went into a dark room to prepare, just as he had seen Dustin Hoffman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kids a Real Natural | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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