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FUNNY GIRL. A sentimental musical biography of Fanny Brice, custom-made for the brassy, sometimes brazen talents of Leading Lady Barbra Streisand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 8, 1968 | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...federal outline, and advanced techniques of systems analysis are being applied to bureaucratic procedures that had not changed by more than a jot in a century. Still in dire need of money, the city's budget has been brought in line with income. Thanks to Wagner's custom of floating long-term loans to pay current operating expenses, New York had "rainy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...Three. Still, many owners have not yet answered the recall notice. And for them the intensive search continues. This is by no means unusual. By current Detroit custom, every time a recall campaign is launched, certified letters go out to all owners of suspect cars. A few weeks later, a second batch of certified letters is sent to all those who have not responded. After that, the quest is turned over to Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which keeps track of car registrations across the country. Polk thereupon sets out to trace nonanswering owners through serial numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Search for the Defectives | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Part of the nutritional problem is caused by ignorance and custom: the black Southern diet is based on the pig. Southern pigs yield some meat, but that doesn't last long. At pigkilling time--usually near the beginning of fall--families have a few meals of bacon and pork loin. From then on, dinner consists of the other pig parts--the ears, the tail, the chittlins (intestines), and--worst of all--the fatback...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: For Over-All Misery, Alabama Wins Handily | 9/25/1968 | See Source »

...exorcism was the third in Quincy's history. Dunn, who began the custom when he became Housemaster in 1966, said at the afternoon ceremony that the annual banishment of banshees is now "tied inextricably into the walls of Quincy House," and that he will continue it. After the exorcism, however, Dunn reminded one student that evil spirits still exist in droves outside the perimeter of the House--even as close as Mill St., which borders Quincy on the South, where former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara addressed an impromptu rally two years...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Of Bagpipes, Bogles, and Banshees | 9/23/1968 | See Source »

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