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...into orbit was nicknamed Astérix. This year, French children are asking Père Noël for the Astérix costumes, dolls and masks that are being sold all over the country. Huge papier-mâché models of the little warrior and his blimpish, pigtailed companion Obélix stare down from Christmas displays in department stores. More than 3,600,000 copies of eight hard-cover Astérix comic books have been sold, and several American publishers have proposed an English-language translation for the U.S. Cafés even stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Hail the Great * ! | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Hawaii, Murphy is considered a rather mysterious personage. He lives austerely: once a blimpish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Tender Invitation | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...Blimpish Bark. Last week the Union debated the same resolution (now, of course, "for Queen and Country"), and the storm was almost as violent. The man responsible was Tariq Ali, 21, a publicity-happy Pakistani studying at Oxford's Exeter College, who as president of the Union selects the topic of its weekly debates. His choice won him threats from Britain's fledgling Ku Klux Klan ("Watch out, you dirty wog"), four television appearances (worth $56), and 18 newspaper interviews. Letters poured in to editors, who responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: For Queen & Country | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...take credit for a predicted economic spurt this summer. He is also happily married, a particularly useful qualification right now. Next are Deputy Prime Minister "Rab" Butler (2-1), who has all the necessary experience, but at 60 may have been around too long; and Lord Hailsham, bellicose, blimpish Science Minister, 55, whose hopes faded rapidly when the government said that its lords reform bill, which would permit him to sit in the Commons, would not be introduced this summer. Ted Heath, 46, is generally ruled out because he is associated with the Common Market failure, and besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Lost Leader | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...heading. He is troubled by the spreading middle-aged need to know, at least, where he has been. Yet his turning back to boyhood memories of India-and his personal trip out East during a long leave from his business-do not seem to be triggered by any Blimpish nostalgia for the good old days. In recollection, his early existence as the only son of the British adviser to a maharaja of the 19203 is outwardly pure pukka sahib, inwardly the struggle of a lonely boy to live up to what he thought was expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passage from India | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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