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Most Christian ministers would scarcely put it that way but, in general, churchly condemnation of gambling seems to be softening. While the Methodists' latest "Disciplines" states that gambling accentuates the desire "to acquire wealth without honest labor [and] encourages a primitive, fatalistic faith in chance," California's Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE (AND SHOULD THEY?) | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Tongue Clicks. Gradually, Itō says, he began to acquire the instincts of an animal. The slightest change in the jungle's normal sounds would send him scurrying from his shelter into the brush, and he and his companions worked out a code of tongue clicks to warn each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Straggler's Ordeal | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Councillor William Maher expressed concern over the future of employees who would be displaced by the new garbage disposal arrangements. DeGuglielmo said that the rubbish contractors would pick up any employee who wanted to work for them and that "in six months, if the man does his job, he will...

Author: By Nancy H. Davis, | Title: Council Approves Private Pickup Of City Garbage | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

ALONG with 800 other journalists, Nation Reporter Jim Willwerth headed straight for Glassboro, N.J., when he heard the news of the impending Johnson-Kosygin meeting. Arriving from New York in the middle of the night, he managed to acquire a sparsely furnished room in the town's only hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 30, 1967 | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope have had one for years, Andy Williams gets his next year, Dean Martin is lined up for 1969, and Frank Sinatra is so anxious to acquire Hollywood's latest status symbol that he doesn't even bat an eye at the $175,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 16, 1967 | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

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