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...Golden and Neff found the launch site's jammed press bleachers more than faintly reminiscent of a class reunion. "There's always plenty of backslapping and laughter," says Neff, "but when those rockets fire up, the oldtimers are as wide-eyed and awestruck as kids at the circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 9, 1971 | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

...Taylor, one of 15 candidates for mayor: "Our priorities are all backward. It reminds me of the old Roman days. The people don't have enough to eat, they don't have health care, they don't have a lot of things. So give them a circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The President Picks a Place | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...under way to prevent the disease from spreading. Authorities have quarantined all of the state's horses, not only forbidding owners to ship them out of the state but prohibiting intercounty movement as well. The order, which grounded a unit of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Dallas, may keep the deadly equine epidemic confined to Texas though horses from the famed King Ranch were shipped to Kentucky prior to the quarantine and may be carrying the disease. The quarantine will do little to prevent those animals already exposed from becoming food for the buzzards. Thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Equine Epidemic | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

...What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion?ground balls?"). They love his catch phrases ("Black is beautiful, but brown is cute") and his apologies for cussing ("Excuse me, lady, I thought you was a tree"). Says 1969 Masters Champion George Archer: "The tour is like a big circus that pulls into town once a year, and Lee is the ringmaster and clown rolled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lee Trevino: Cantinflas of the Country Clubs | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

Featuring THE BEAUTIFUL BURTONS in their DEATH-DARING DEFIANCE of the FLASHING KNIVES! First Time Under the Big Top! The way Elizabeth and Richard Burton were telling it in London last week, they dropped in one night recently at a little local circus near their Mexican vacation house in Puerto Vallarta. Suddenly one of the performers was saying things in Spanish and smiling at Elizabeth, so she stepped graciously into the ring, thinking she was going to be introduced. "The next thing I knew, he was throwing daggers at her," said Richard. "What we didn't know," said Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 5, 1971 | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

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