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...regard myself as an old fogy, being 13, yet the Beatles strike me as the typical bandwagon idiocy-ecstasy that American teen-agers are sucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1964 | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...Upper and Lower Chambers and the U.S. House), giving a remarkable number of people a crack at active roles in politics. In a sense, the house perpetuates the New England town meeting, and in that sort of atmosphere even the most attractive candidates are hard put to get a bandwagon rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The New Hampshire Campaign | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...world has ever seen," rhapsodizes Olympics Weight-Lifting Coach Bob Hoffman. "I am absolutely awestruck at the miracles it has wrought." A millionaire manufacturer of gym equipment, Hoffman claims that he was the first to make isometric exercising devices. He has seen about 50 competing firms climb on the bandwagon just within the past four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Without Moving a Muscle | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...would be a far more patriotic and respectful act for a U.S. citizen to stop the bandwagon of pseudo-grief before they rename New York's Seventh Avenue "Avenue of the Kennedys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...whites and Asians, and tells his own dominant Kikuyu tribe that they must work amiably with other tribes. The opposition KADU Party, which elected only 31 of the 130-member House of Representatives, is falling apart as more and more of its own Representatives climb on the Kenyatta bandwagon, lured by government jobs and patronage. As a result, Kenya will probably become a typically African one-party state, but probably not in so virulent a form as Ghana or Guinea. No one can ignore the difficulties ahead-the uneasiness of the remaining white settlers, the fears of the Asians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Uhuru Is Not Enough | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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