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...hurt our plans," Levett said. "Now, we work this way: if your father owns stock, you ask who else owns stock. It's a rinky-dink way of running an operation, but without lists, what...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: New Campaign GM Drive For Social Responsibility | 4/15/1971 | See Source »

Awake Nights. San Clemente is doing its best to take a resident President in stride. "I personally think it's kind of small-town hinky-dink," says Mayor Evans of the big welcome banners that used to greet Nixon on arrival. Still. Nixon watching is a full-time occupation for many. Mrs. Doris Dennis, a San Clemente housewife, last year waited for two hours at Nixon's helicopter pad in hopes of taking his picture, and was doubly rewarded when he shook her hand. "After that, I wrote Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, and I told them that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Richard Nixon Slept Here | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...time, one of the best -rock groups of the last decade. They pushed the smooth syncopation of Detroit's Motown sound onto the top of the charts with twelve No. 1 records. But then came the new rocks-and the Supremes suddenly sounded a little rinky dink. Kind of nice, maybe, but definitely oldfashioned. So Diana decided to go another route. A song that she sings in her new nightclub act points the direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Baby, Baby, Where Did Diana Go? | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

Although it had to be moved to Interville Mountain-a "rinky-dink" place in McCollom's opinion-from Loon Mountain because of a dearth of snow. 85 "A" rated slalom men made the competition fierce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Surprises Slopemen Race and Jump To High Places in Meets | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

...attempt to face and understand My Lai, some contributing causes help explain, if not condone. There is, unfortunately, a racial element. To the G.I., the Vietnamese, both North and South, "slant." is a "gook," "dink," "slope".; The terms, often used unthinkingly, tend to shift the object into a thing rather than a person ? and hence something that it is easier to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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