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Unexpected Sympathy. Thousands of new Somebodies had to overcome the barrier of illiteracy. Many learned to identify the names of the candidates they favored by staring for hours at crayon-lettered flash cards prepared by civil rights workers. Despite an election regulation that allowed just five minutes in the voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: A Corner Turned | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

"Mr. President, you have been my boss for a number of years, and you always tell me you want to lose weight, and yet you never do very much to help yourself. Now I am going to be your boss for a change. Eat what I put in front of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Saying, Doing, Being | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

Speaking to a mock convention of the state's Young Democrats at Memorial Hall, senatorial and gubernatorial candidates were all gently hung up on the Kennedy image. Endicott Peabody, running for Leverett Saltonstall's Senate seat, spoke with the late President's mannerisms--the left hand in the jacket pocket...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: The Politicians Of Party Beach | 5/10/1966 | See Source »

Hardison, says Neil Forsyth, a graduate student from Britain, "understands more of Aristotelian thought than anybody who taught me Aristotle at Cambridge." When one of Hardison's lectures on Milton and the Puritan period ended, Forsyth adds, "I wanted to stand up and cheer." Hardison admits to having some off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: To Profess with a Passion | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

The genitals made this group's day. They nervously sat through Eaux d' Artifice, a film disappointingly about fountains. The old gentleman, who apparently had seen Scorpio Rising before, attempted to quiet the group's unrest. "Never you mind," he told his followers, squinting down a neighboring dress with his...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Sin, Flicks, and Tech | 4/25/1966 | See Source »

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