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...ranking Republican estimates that 22 of the 25 G.O.P. Gov ernors think he would make the best candidate the party could put up. Jack Kennedy admitted after his eyelash victory over Nixon in 1960 that Rocky might have beaten him. With Lyndon Johnson in low esteem among many Democrats and among the independents, who now comprise 27% of U.S. voters (v. 46% for the Democrats, 27% Republicans), Rockefeller could probably collect more of their votes than any other Republican...

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

...only Democrats to Congress since 1940 and, in proportion to its size, gave John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson the biggest majorities of any state. Yet in a special election last week to fill a vacant seat in the Second Congressional District, the Republicans came within a gnat's eyelash of winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhode Island: Eroded Stronghold | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...lean, well-written memoir-some of which echoes material in The Learning Tree-Parks describes how often he came within an eyelash of choosing violence and raw, corrosive hatred as his weapons in the struggle for dignity. After a fight with three white toughs in St. Paul, Minn.-a battle that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Armed with a Camera | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...spots. Though she occasionally sounds the depths of a woman's revenge, Sophia sticks mainly to Byzantine surface effects. As the farewell gesture of a hollow drama that might have been something more, the young Jewish nation rather incidentally survives the first Arab onslaught-saved by an eyelash, so it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Holiday in Haganah | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

HONEY WEST (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Anne Francis as a private eyelash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 17, 1965 | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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