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...boner of the century," Harry Dent, the President's chief delegate hunter in the South, argued: "Reagan people are supposed to be purists, but this is a very impure act." Reagan's embracing of Schweiker, declared Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, was like "a farmer selling his last cow to buy a milking machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: A GAMBLE GONE WRONG | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...success for Goldwater's southern strategy. As it was, the moderates had no candidate who could present himself as a unifier, and besides, Rockefeller's initial salvo had been returned with vengeance by the Goldwater faction, culminating in a 15-minute round of boos for him at the Cow Palace...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Rocky and His Friends | 7/30/1976 | See Source »

...single dirtiest vehicle I had ever ridden in--when I retrieved my bright-red backpack out of the back at the end of my ride, it had turned brown, brown with black racing stripes. Come to find out the driver carried his organic fertilizer around back there, mostly cow manure, that is, with pig and chicken droppings thrown in as a kicker. But you couldn't ask for a more pleasant ride--Mt. Pisgah National Forest, hills and dales, glinting little trickles sliding down valleys, evergreen air with the smell of steaming highway...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sliding Rock'n'Roll | 7/9/1976 | See Source »

Even when successful, inoculation can be an extremely unpleasant experience. One of Dr. Boylston's grandnephews, now a member of the Continental Congress, decided to have his wife and four children inoculated. They all confined themselves in a friend's house in Boston, along with a cow to provide milk. Two of the children soon developed eye inflammations, and one of them became covered with what her mother described as "above a thousand pussels as large as a great green pea... She can neither walk, sit, stand or lay with any comfort." The mother also reported that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rx for the Small Pox? | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

Gunned Down. Ever since Phoenix's emergence from a parched cow town in the early 1940s to a steamy Southwestern metropolis in the '50s and '60s, criminal elements have flocked to the desert country and flourished. Land fraud has proved the most profitable enterprise, but racketeers have also gained control of restaurants and other fronts for illegal activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: They Finally Got Me' | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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