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...million copies, with Lead Singer Mick Jagger wailing, "I'm tryin' to make some girl." Difficulty was, Tagger's diction is so slurred that many stations unwittingly played the record; others bleeped out the offending phrase. But, gloats Jagger, "They didn't understand the dirtiest line." That is the one where the girl pleads: "Baby, better come back later next week 'cause you see I'm on a losing streak." Says Jagger: "It's just life. That's what really happens to girls. Why shouldn't people write about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Going to Pot | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...double the increase of the 18 years from 1947 to 1964. Nonetheless, Negroes are almost totally excluded from high-paying craft unions. "The majority of the 1,500,000 Negroes who hold union cards," says Whitney Young, Director of the National Urban League, "have tickets to do the hardest, dirtiest and most menial jobs that industry requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Magnificent Tokenism | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...vampire politics," protested as a low blow his opponent's suggestion that he should defend Genovese before the family of a boy killed in Viet Nam. Campaigning in a chartered light plane, Dumont-who in fact opposed Goldwater's nomination in 1964-charged Hughes with the lowest, dirtiest, and most contemptible utterances." Said he: "I didn't know that $35,000 a year [the Governor's salary] meant so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Jersey: The Genovese Campaign | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Moonlight helicoptering is not the only invention of U.S. Marine Corps Lieut. Colonel David Clement (see above). During his four-month stay in the mountainous jungles northwest of Danang, the lean, leathery, 40-year-old North Carolinian has applied the best of counterinsurgency techniques to the dirtiest of conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Big Joe No. 1 | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...Baseman Richardson nervously bobbled two easy double-play grounders; Catcher Elston Howard let three passed balls sail by and wailed: "I never did anything like that before." And poor Mickey Mantle-four times he threw wildly to the infield. Twice in one game he was caught off base. "The dirtiest trick I've ever seen in baseball," Mickey groused, after Cardinal Shortstop Dick Groat lulled him off second with a joke, then zipped around, took a throw and tagged him out. Naughty, indeed, but it saved a run-and the Cardinals in the fourth game. Trailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Sweet Taste of Revenge | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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