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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the true Bostonian's heart turns to road running, and for the competitive type, there are many races in the area, culminating in the famous Boston Marathon on April...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Marathon Runners Train For Boston Spring Races | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...angry liberals pressed them hard enough, the plan's administrators could come up with reasonable excuses for including so many affluent patients at a time when the poor are sicker and more desperate. Other health plans, Pollack might say, are famous for their "social conscience," and only 10 per cent of their patients are poor. So if the Harvard plan takes 20 per cent of its patients form Roxbury it must be twice as socially concerned...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: If Medicare Fails, What Will Replace It? | 3/18/1969 | See Source »

Madison Avenue is certainly not tired of that famous three-letter word, SEX, but it is increasingly captivated by a four-letter word, LOVE. That is the name of a new line of cosmetics that has been brought out by Menley & James, a subsidiary of Smith Kline & French Laboratories. Love was in splashy four-page ads in almost every leading woman's magazine (Vogue, Redbook, Cosmopolitan) and in regional editions of LIFE. At a time when advertising is bolder and nuder than ever, the multimillion-dollar campaign leaves little to the imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Drugstore Love-In | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...subplots that enable Puzo to illustrate the broad reach of the Godfather's influence. It is a mark of his power that he commands fierce loyalties because he treats his petitioners with respect-though they range from an obscure paisano seeking revenge for a damaged daughter to a famous Italian-American crooner who needs help to branch out into acting and producing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's Family | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...view proved prophetic. Goldman's diplomatic effort came to total disaster at the famous June 1965 White House Festival of the Arts. Incensed by then about the Viet Nam war and always snobbishly intolerant of the presidential manner, a number of intellectuals noisily stayed away. Among those who did come, one guest-New York Critic Dwight Macdonald-cheekily circulated an anti-Johnson petition at the gathering. Another, John Hersey, chose to read pointed excerpts from his book Hiroshima despite fierce White House displeasure ("The President and I," said Mrs. Johnson, "do not want this man to come here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goldman's Variations | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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