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...Vice President, for example, gets $10,000 a year for expenses, but so far has had a hard time using it. The Nixons entertain so much that Agnew has been called on only once to throw an official dinner. The Agnews live in a four-bedroom Sheraton-Park Hotel suite, which they find adequate despite its obvious contrast with their previous quarters, the 54-room Maryland Governor's mansion in Annapolis. Their counterpart of San Clemente is the same paint-flecking seashore cottage in Maryland that they have rented for years. A big Saturday night at the Agnews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: More Money for the Biplane Set | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...disclosure regarding McNamara plus the usual touch-up boys-Sorensen and brother-in-law Smith-should help eradicate the illusions most housefraus entertain about the Kennedy myths . . . and their spontaneous eloquence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Though Meyer's films have grossed $11 million in ten years, the profits, he claims, have been incidental. "My turn-on," he says, "is making movies that entertain me." Unfortunately, like those other pioneers, Kinsey and Masters, Meyer may live to see himself trampled in the sexual revolution. "I am worried about Am Curious (Yellow)," admits Meyer (46-38-42). "That film has put me at a crossroad. I have never shown genitalia in any of my films. Once you have to show that to get people into the theater, how many people are going to do it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Glandscape Artist | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...Poor Dad, Kopit displayed a minor gift for surrealistic comedy, and in Indians he has attempted to entertain when not pulpiteering. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show. In London, where the work originally opened, the parody-circus scenes came first, including the last-minute rescue of the innocent maiden from the ignoble savages. The somber account of the expropriation, humiliation and decimation of the Indians followed, together with the pleas of their chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play: Don't Be Beastly to the Redskins | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...sexes are usually segregated in separate wings or on separate floors with common lounges in between. Most schools allow at least a measure of visiting in rooms, but the parietal rules vary widely. In the only coed dorm at the University of Texas, for example, men are allowed to entertain women in their rooms only on weekends. An alarm system is set on the staircases leading to the women's floors; it has been silent all year. Among the most liberal is Stanford, where men and women in one coed dorm live in adjacent rooms (but use different bathrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Boys and Girls Together | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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