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...issues were momentous, the situation unprecedented. The most massive leak of secret documents in U.S. history had suddenly exposed the sensitive inner processes whereby the Johnson Administration had abruptly escalated the nation's most unpopular?and unsuccessful???war. The Nixon Government, battling stubbornly to withdraw from that war at its own deliberate pace, took the historic step of seeking to suppress articles before publication, and threatened criminal action against the nation's most eminent newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Pentagon Papers: The Secret War | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...away from strong central controls over their economies and opting for the freer American system. Britain's ruling Labor Party has become practically bourgeois, and this year scrapped almost all notions of nationalizing industry; West Germany's Socialists have long since done the same in an effort?so far unsuccessful???to wrest power from the free-enterprising Christian Democrats; and traditionally Socialist Norway in 1965 voted a conservative government into power for the first time in 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: We Are All Keynesians Now | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...instance were large gobs of similar copy quoted. . . . And after all, why should 'the most successful columnist in the business take the copy of the most unsuccessful???copy that long ago was proved unsalable. I should say that Mr. Morley, whose 'Bowling Green' column is perhaps the least read in the history of journalism, is capitalizing on Mr. McIntyre's popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columnists v. Columnist | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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