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Vacuum Keening. At this point the non-hero always has two anodynes for his despair: 1) alcohol, 2) another woman. Author Wilson generously allows Nathan to sample both. Amy has an adulterous fling of her own after which the following dialogue ensues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Disenchanted Forest | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...reasserted itself. Returning to his home at Hyannisport, he posed for photographers with Jacqueline and little Caroline, then changed into slacks and a sports shirt and relaxed. Once, he and his brother Bobby went outside and tossed a soccer ball around for a few minutes, though even this momentary fling lacked the old Kennedy flavor of sibling aggressiveness. The rest of the time Bobby kept close to his own home (a stone's throw away from Jack's), where he had set up a command post bristling with long-distance phone lines and news tickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man of the New Frontier | 11/16/1960 | See Source »

...football season had been a bleak one for California State Polytechnic College, the pride of the California mission city of San Luis Obispo-five games lost and only one victory. All the same, an adventurous excitement built up as the squad got ready for its one big faraway fling of the year, a game with Bowling Green State University near Toledo, Ohio. After recoiling at the cost of a four-engined plane, the school settled on a charter from Arctic-Pacific Airlines ($7,700) in a C-46, a tired, twin-engined relic of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Can You See Many Lights? | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...long, lean years with one giddy fling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...chic as ever, and her adopted 13-year-old twins, Cathy and Cindy, wearing polka-dot dresses. While Mother, a director of the Pepsi-Cola Co. (once headed by her late fourth husband, Alfred Steele), was heading West to promote soft-drinking, her daughters were just taking a final fling before going back to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 19, 1960 | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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