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...Today, Tomorrow, Thereafter), a 7 3-page booklet published by the Department of Transportation, contains suggested writing and research assignments and fables aimed at promoting supersonic travel. The booklet's cast of characters includes Marita the Supersonic Pussycat (the first feline to fly to Paris on the SST), Deci Belle (a "smooth chick with good looks" who "was attracted to noise -the louder the better"), and The House That Had to Move ("Now the airport has room to grow. More jets can do their job of helping people travel"). As part of a role-playing exercise, students are told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Supersonic Teaching | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...victory the whale cannons his ghastly ordinance over the far edge of the earth, like the limbs of Osiris. As it was, the Big Tank encloses a sparse and ignoble pack of oddfish. One particularly obsequious fellow paused, and looked at us, finning himself constantly backward. I deci?? to call him the blue rumor...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: Fish Garibaldi and the Blue Rumor | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

Later there was a second riot, and 2,000 women staged an anti-Robles march. This week the Supreme Court is scheduled to meet and make a deci sion about the legality of the National Assembly's ouster proceedings. After that, the national guard, the final arbiter in Panamanian politics, will either stick by Robles, back Delvalle - or step in and assume power itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama: Too Many Presidents | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...grounds of age alone. Dictator Franco. 69, could hardly delay his deci sion much longer; moreover, with workers restive enough to defy his sternest no-strike decrees, it was time that Spain's 30 million people were given some inkling of what lies ahead when the Franco era ends. The monarchy seemed certain to return - at least for a while - but would Franco bring back from exile the Pretend er Don Juan, 48, or would he give the nod to Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos? Don Juan has rarely been in Franco's good graces since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Succession | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...findings. During the past six years, Harris has carried out private polls for 35 U.S. Senators and 17 state Governors, plus scores of other office holders and office seekers. He was John F. Kennedy's pollster in 1960, and Ken nedy based many of his campaign deci sions, both in his drive for the Demo cratic nomination and in his contest with Nixon, on Harris' findings and counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Democratic Pollster | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

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