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...chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee -- he defeated Johnston for the post in 1985 -- Mitchell has a leg up with the members he helped elect in 1986. Says one Senator: "A lot of those guys are going to think, We're gonna dance with the fella who brung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Goodbye to Byrd | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

President Carter does not speak for all the American people, at least not for me. I'm going to "dance with the guy wat brung me"-Taiwan. Virginia B. Hooko Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1979 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...armed and empowered patriots. The indifference quickly turned to hostility, as the observers kept trying to avoid violence and began to sympathize with the inmates' grievances: a guard bringing sandwiches to the committee room said, "If I'd a known this was for you people. I'd a never brung it." The townspeople of Attica and most of upstate New York shared this hostility: they thought the observers had no business negotiating with those "murderers, rapists, and scum"--they weren't "normal people like you and I," a guard's wife told a reporter...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: A Rubbing From A Tombstone | 3/8/1975 | See Source »

Bartender Johnny Jones was one of the few who escaped by battering through one of the windows. His wife did not get out. Said Johnny Jones, when he next saw her: "My old lady looked like a pickle when they brung her out. She burned like a pickle. Dead." The counted dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...playhouse went up, several years ago, on an Alaskan valley and a colony of bankrupt, wrangling, hopeful, bewildered, bitter Midwesterners transplanted there by the U. S. Government. The play was called 200 Were Chosen. Act I-"This is the Matanuska Valley-best little "valley in South Alaska. The Government brung you here and it's gonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: The Valley | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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