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...only Garrison eyewitness who bore any relevance to a conspiracy was Perry Russo, who is an insurance agent. In a preliminary hearing, Russo claimed to have overheard Shaw, who is the retired managing director of the New Orleans International Trade Mart?and was named the Outstanding Citizen of New Orleans in 1965?discussing the assassination with Oswald and the late David Ferrie, a former airline pilot who is also accused in Garrison's case. As a star witness, Russo left something to be desired: he did not remember some of the most incriminating details until after he had been hypnotized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: More than a Man in the Dock | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Hugh M. Hefner is also an American legend. He is 42, and he is going through a change of life. But Hefner's Playboy empire has made him a millionaire 100 times over. He has no boss to bitch about, no wife to bore him, and he somewhat euphemistically claims to be "the biggest employer of beautiful women in the world." So what does he have to rebel against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Hugh Hefner Faces Middle Age | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...below her breasts, a second body began that seemed to bear no relation to the first. Her stomach bloated out. Her hips, thighs, and legs were fat, ugly, repulsive. As he looked at her, the boy could see the absurdity of these proportions. Neither body bore any relevance to the other. It was as though there were a line, running straight across at the breastbone, that seperated one body from the second...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Into the Center of the Circle | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...should discipline, not entertain, and Barzun waxes eloquent on the pleasures of drudgery. Nor do the liberal arts need to be relevant to modern problems. Such relevance he calls the fantasy of instant utility. Relevance for whom, he asks, and for how long? What excites one generation will probably bore the next and transform whatever remains of the university into a "weekly journal published orally by aging Ph.D's." To speak of "relevance" and "experience" in the same breath with education is to play on words. One can be very experienced and not educated, he argues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decline of Learning | 2/11/1969 | See Source »

...performers at one recent myth, a city planner said: "I had no feeling of alienation or strangeness." A real estate broker commented: "It's a new look at life, which we sorely need. Great!" Halprin herself says that for some people myths are "simply fun, for some a bore, for some extraordinarily sensual, for some a happening, for some a kind of atavistic tribal reawakening. For me, it was all these things-and a new exploration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rites: The Mythmaker | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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