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Student reaction to the club has been mixed. One student who spent three months trying to get his records expressed the opinion that the club must be either stupid, disorganized, or crooked to allow such delay. Another reported no trouble at all and said he was completely satisfied.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Club Investigated; Fraud Feared | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Friends and allies were already at work. In Los Angeles, supporters began to set up an office to answer Nixon's mail, plan lecture tours, help with speechwriting and strategy. In Washington, G.O.P. Congressmen invited Nixon to sit in on all meetings of the House-and-Senate Republican policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Nixon's Future | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

There was a certain glamour about the Van Doren who tried to get away with it. Up to a point there was public sympathy, based on begrudged admiration for this daring young man who went along with the crooked rules of the game to make some cash. But when the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Double Jeopardy | 10/19/1960 | See Source »

Critics of American civilization, like most specialists, tend to be narrow in their diagnoses of what ails the U.S. David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd worries about other-directedness and herd instinct. William H. Whyte in The Organization Man examines the loss of individuality caused by modern corporate life. Vance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Crooked Paradise | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

It is really the Devil who is speaking so caddishly through Humphrey. The Devil in this incarnation is known as Dougal Douglas, or occasionally as Douglas Dougal, and he comes equipped with a crooked right shoulder, a clawlike right hand, and two small bumps on his head where a plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Devil Called Douglas | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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