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...going to lobby this place like it's never been lobbied before," Louis Redden, a former first lieutenant from Philadelphia, said as he strutted toward the House office subway...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Lobby in Congress | 4/20/1971 | See Source »

...five soldiers leap over the closed trolley doors and pile into a departing car which, by coincidence, carries the Honorable Strom Thurmond (R-S. C.). "Let me introduce our motley crew," Redden says quickly, reaching over the glass divider. "We're what you might call cannon fodder. We're the ones you send to get shot up over there, and they say you're a hot, so why don't you do something about getting this war ended...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Lobby in Congress | 4/20/1971 | See Source »

...currently estranged from her third husband, but not to the point of refusing him occasional access to her favors. Felicita and Soledad, two other daughters of Fernanda's, are whores. They are also good mothers, although somewhat unconventional: the lullabies that soothe Felicita's children would redden a longshoreman's ears. Fernanda's only son, Simplicio, 21, ran away from home at six and became a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Culture of Poverty | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...organ, all the significant moments of Michelangelo's ordeal are painstakingly recreated. His inspiration for the Sistine vault occurs on a mountain-top at sunrise in exquisitely detailed cumulus clouds. He rushes to a battlefield where Julius marvels at Michelangelo's preliminary sketches while enemy cannon balls redden the earth around them. "I planned a ceiling, he plans a miracle," declares the Holy Father, then to his troops: "What are you waiting for? Attack!" And Agony skirts the question of the artist's homosexuality in provocative tête-à-têtes with a fervent Contessina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Epic Eyeful | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

Ever since he wrote the opinion in the 1954 school case, the mere mention of Chief Justice Earl Warren has been enough to redden the neck of any good segregationist. When Warren agreed to speak last week in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, authorities began preparing for trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Hello, Earl | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

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