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...Guzzling Dinosaur. Since November, the man with the best chance of winning has seemed to be George Wilcken Romney, 59. Exploiting that considerable appeal, he has adopted as the motto for a newsletter published by his supporters: "Winning is the name of the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The Temper of the Times | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...decreasing. He has the squarejawed, silver-fringed good looks for the job, an unbroken string of victories and an unblemished personal life. He can enrapture a sympathetic audience, as he did in the conservative mountain states recently, by charging that "the Great Society has grown into a tax-guzzling dinosaur"-an echo from the days when he and American Motors' little Rambler were doing battle with Detroit's "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Despite the Mormon Church's relegation of Negroes to second-class status, Romney, a faithful churchgoer who tithes his salary and abstains from liquor, caffeine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The Temper of the Times | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and the Col orado River squawfish - to say nothing of the timber wolf, the grizzly bear and the American alligator - may soon go the way of the dinosaur: to extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: The Way of the Dinosaur | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...Dinosaur & a Colonel. The girls differ in their acting as much as they do in their looks. Lynn, by the very bumptiousness of her nature, seems almost doomed to be a comedienne. She doesn't particularly try to be funny; she just can't help it. She is a madcap mimic who at an instant's notice can turn into anything that stands on two, four or 36 legs. She does an imitation of a dinosaur that would bring Alley Oop on the run, and she takes off a pukka colonel so vividly that the onlooker can hear his imaginary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Birds of a Father | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...privilege of putting all this between covers is one for which Kuttner might have to pay, to the tune of several hundred dollars, but that threat makes the task of dinosaur-fighting just that much more appealing. "I don't give a dawn whether they buy it or not, as long as they read it. If they're not interested, I don't want them to touch it." He enjoys talking like a boy-with-mission and, if the magazine survives beyond its next issue, he's probably found as good a mission as any. "But look," he says...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: 'Scorpion' Survives--From Issue to Issue | 8/23/1966 | See Source »

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