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...league, but he's getting old. His younger teammates on the New Orleans Saints ride him, and his wife, a fashion designer (Jessica Walter), goes into a deep freeze whenever he comes near. As he hobbles off the field, fans bellow such pleasantries as "Yaah, why don'cha apply for Medicare?" He is even driven into an affair with another woman (Diana Muldaur), which is consummated in front of a fireplace and photographed with a lot of lingering dissolves as superimposed flames of passion presumably play over the lovers' discreetly naked bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time for Medicare | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...island's Chinese name is Pa Cha, meaning Eight Forks, because the river's waters divide into eight separate currents at that point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: More Trouble on the Borders | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...really had a backyard to call her own. Born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn., Judy was a vaudeville trouper at the age of five. Her father died when she was twelve, and her mother, as Judy remarked bitterly years later, "was no good for anything except to create cha os and fear. She was the worst - the real-life Wicked Witch of the West." The nearest thing to a home that Judy had was the MGM lot in Hollywood, where - between long agonizing hours before the camera - Louis B. Mayer sent her to the studio school with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: End of the Rainbow | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...those gags! The political jokes ("I greatly appreciate music. You know that's one place I'm like Harry Truman--I used to play the Piano myself.") the bilingual wisecracks ("We have to quit thinking of Latin America in terms of siestas, manana, Rumba, Samba, and Cha-Cha-Cha." Cha-Cha-Cha!), the self-deprecating quips ("I'm a dropout from the Electrol College. I flunked debating...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Nixon Wit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...maker of metal products, from 3,300-lb. brass ingots to casings for Cha nel No. 5 perfume, Scovill drifted downhill for years. The firm lost $131,-000 on sales of $121 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: A Very Individual Manager | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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