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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GUMMIDGE: In other words, never say "In other words." That will force you to clarify your statements. Keep all pronunciamentos orotund and hazy. Suppose your mother comes to school and asks how you are doing. Do I reply: "He is at the bottom of his class-lazy and good-for-nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU SAY YOU ARE - OBSCURELY | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Virgo, noted Righter, and so his prospect will remain precarious, with the planets of Uranus and Pluto still exercising a malign influence. Said Righter, in the kind of prediction that any astrologer would agree was a wise one: "Virgos could be catapulted to the top-or to the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Back in with the Black Arts | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Particularly singing the way I want to. I have not found the easy, enjoyable way of singing. I think I have a fear of finding it, probably from having a little too much of singing when I was young. In the back of my mind and the bottom of my heart I want to lick that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Holland's ocean-going tugboat fleet, they tell some beguiling yarns about a young captain, name of Martinus Harinxma. Once, lost in a fog in a minefield, he unerringly determined his ship's position by tasting a sample of sea bottom brought up by the lead; while towing the Shah of Persia's yacht to the Caspian Sea via Russia, he smuggled two girls aboard at Stockholm and kept an orgy going in the Shah's big oval bed during the crossing to Leningrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legendary Skipper | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...would go to the bottom of the following year's list if his number is not called. He would remain eligible for the draft for another year but, barring a war, this would be a mere formality...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Proposals for Reform | 12/20/1966 | See Source »

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