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...would be quick. Everything would be over, ended. It wouldn't drag out like impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Goldwater on Nixon's Prospects | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...immediate release of some new guidelines for business depreciation. "To hell with them!" roared then Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Chads E. Walker. He had an agreement with Congress that no action would be taken without prior consultation. He was on the phone until 2 a.m. and had to drag in most of the Administration's top economic advisers before he won his point of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Some Lessons to Be Learned | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...Drag. This turnabout sounds like something that might have been thought up and then discarded by Kilgore Trout, the seedy science-fiction writer who skulks through the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Its spinning out does not amount to much unless the reader is unusually titillated by characters in drag. The novel's plot involves a pretty secretary named Georgie who at first accepts man's lot-being pawed by his boss and whistled at by foul-mouthed female construction workers-and then gradually rebels, fleeing to the Maine woods with a winsome and similarly disaffected FBI girl named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Turnabout What? | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...rural South, where every filling station harbors a budding pit crew and every stop sign is a potential starting line for an impromptu drag race, auto racing is a way of life. At the drive-in hamburger stands, kids who first soloed on John Deere tractors fuss over their souped-up cars and talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "camshaft durations." Their heroes are the stock-car drivers who ride the Grand National circuit, a highballing competition that first took hold in the 1950s. The king of the road then was Lee Petty, a lead-footed type who roared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Road II | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...worse shape. Poisoned by drugs and suffering from chronic time lag due to constant travel, she can barely distinguish herself from her luggage. Meanwhile, the schlock rock of the '70s goes on. (For a flesh-and-blood reference, see the recent issue of Rolling Stone, in which Drag Star Alice Cooper says: "The sicker all you kids get, the greater the shows we'll have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intermission | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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