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...record. But in recent weeks it has been bettered by Army ist Lieut. Bill Nieder (6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs.) with a put of 65 ft. 7 in., by California's Dallas Long (6 ft. 4 in., 263 lbs.) with 64 ft. 6½ in., and by Californian Dave-Davis (6 ft. 3½ in., 265 lbs.) with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Angry Whales | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...oddity to an often rugged sport. The trouble was an embarrassment of riches. A Yankee or Floridian could count on identifying any bird he saw with nothing more cumbersome than his binoculars and a single pocket volume, Peterson's Eastern Field Guide to the Birds. An Idahoan or Californian had the same assurance with Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds. But Texas is where, ornithologically, East meets West, and North America meets near-tropical Mexico. The conscientious Texas birder needed both Peterson books -or all three volumes of Richard H. Pough's Audubon Bird Guides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Rarae Aves | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...nominees, as well as the pro gram, of the party in 1960." One para mount party problem in the 1960 cam paign will be to convince independents that Nixon is a modern Republican and not the pawn of the Old Guard right wing, as the Democrats gleefully charge (although Californian Nixon was, in fact, a modern Republican before Eisenhower was a candidate or before Rockefeller had a political gleam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Durable Influence | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

...Democrat Brown did not echo Republican Rockefeller's refusal of a vice-presidential nomination. If the Democratic Convention should select virtually anybody except Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy, then Catholic Californian Brown, with his 81 convention blue chips, might become attractive as the second man on the ticket. And if any of the presidential candidates had ideas of taking those 81 votes away from him in California's June primary, Favorite Son Pat Brown issued a fair warning: "Then I might to some extent change my position . . . But that's the only possible chance there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word from Pat | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

Unsurprisingly, Californian Nixon's greatest strength was in the Midwest and Far West, where he was running 55 to 45 ahead of Jack Kennedy. In Kennedy's own East, the gap was narrower, but Nixon led Kennedy, 52 to 48. Only in the South was Kennedy out front, but in that traditionally Democratic heartland, his margin was close enough to make a Democratic handicapper's hands grow clammy: Nixon, 48%; Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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