Word: timely
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...prior to the raid on Son Tay. If one thing is more heartbreaking than the experiences of the wives and families of the P.O.W.s, it is the story of the prisoners themselves. God bless the men who conceived and carried out the raid. Let's hope that next time they will be successful...
Married. Nancy Sinatra, 30, kittenish pop singer (These Boots Are Made for Walking); and Hugh Lambert, 40, TV choreographer; both for the second time; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Cathedral City, Calif. The wedding was held on Papa Frank's birthday, explained Nancy, "since Daddy likes to give things away on his birthday...
Died. Major General Artem I. Mikoyan, 65, co-designer of the Russian MIG fighter planes and brother of long-time Politburo Member Anastas I. Mikoyan; in Moscow. MIGs take their name from the surnames of Mikoyan and Mikhail I. Gurevich, who in 1940 built the MIG-3, which became the backbone of the Soviet high-altitude fighter force. Their MIG-15 became the Communist mainstay in the Korean War, while the supersonic MIG-21 is presently the first-line fighter for most Communist and many Arab air forces. Over the years, Western airmen have given the MIGs generally high marks...
Scene 1 (large portions of it originally printed in a June issue of New York magazine) centers on that now famous money-raising party for the Black Panthers given in Conductor Leonard Bernstein's Manhattan apartment last January. For the occasion (TIME, Jan. 26), Wolfe coined the phrase "radical chic." He thus described the tendency among bright blooded, moneyed or otherwise distinguished New Yorkers−lately grown weary of plodding, via media middle-class institutions like the Heart Ball, the U.J.A. and the N.A.A.C.P.−to take up extreme, exotic, earthy and more titillating causes. To hear Wolfe tell...
...poverty program is a feckless giveaway; white liberals are pure patsies. As a result, he will endure not merely the embarrassing approval of the Neanderthals ("You see! you see!") but the threat of stoning at the hands of enraged reformers and black extremists alike. When a TIME reporter recently asked a minister of the Panther Party's shadow government about the truthfulness of Wolfe's Radical Chic account, the reply was ominous: "You mean that dirty, blatant, lying, racist dog who wrote that fascist disgusting thing in New York magazine...