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...bumper brigade in Harvard Square is any indication of the coming election returns (which it undoubtedly is not), then Lyndon Johnson should get 79 per cent of the vote. In two days of diligent car inspecting, 38 Johnson stickers and 10 Goldwater stickers were seen...

Author: By Iris Shulman, | Title: Curious Consistency Seen Among Cars Who Bear 'Johnson' Bumper Stickers | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Other nations, too, would have their days this week, and the laggardly Russians were hoping for a bumper harvest in such events as canoeing and gymnastics. But so far, at least, in sport's biggest show, the spotlight shone brightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: Lieut. Pinkerton's Week | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...Outrage, at best, is a 97-minute rehash of the vivid Japanese classic Rashomon. At worst, it is a clear case of Occidental death. In remaking Director Akira Kurosawa's 1952 Oscar winner, the producers have added a bumper crop of cactus, presumably hoping to repeat the success of The Magnificent Seven, a western based on Kurosawa's epic tale of the samurai. Assigned to this prickly task are Star Paul Newman, Director Martin Ritt and Photographer James Wong Howe, all covered with pay dirt from their triumphant collaboration in Hud. The result this time is a slick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rashomon Revisited | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

Gone from that squad is captain Dave Farley, but returning are a host of fine, experienced runners and a bumper crop of sophomores. The team looks so strong that the Harvard runners, no slouches in their own right, will be hard pressed today just to equal the six-point loss to Brown a year...

Author: By Phillip Ardery, | Title: Harvard Runners to Face Uphill Road Against Brown | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...normally Republican Ohio, some abnormal things are happening. When physicians drove up to a meeting of the Butler County Medical Society, an astonishing number of their cars bore L.B.J. bumper stickers. Yet, at the same time many of those same cars carried a second sticker with another name on it: TAFT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ohio: Son of Mr. Republican | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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