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...Flying Fool," they called him. Where his rivals prepared elaborate rations, Lindbergh bought five sandwiches from a restaurant, remarking: "If I get to Paris, I won't need any more, and if I don't get to Paris, I won't need any more either." When he was dragged from the plane at Le Bourget 33 hours and 30 minutes later, legend insists that he said: "Well, here we are." He was mobbed by the public and feted by the great (he had to borrow a suit to meet the President of France). President Calvin Coolidge sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LINDBERGH: THE WAY OF A HERO | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...Commies cannot fool all the people all the time. The Indonesians kicked them out, then the Ghanaians, now the Greeks. Splendid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 19, 1967 | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...best policy, then, would seem to be to redirect the Rangers, not to beat them or fool them. The Chicago police, following this line of thought, went so far as to arrange a peace treaty between the Rangers and their main rivals, the Disciples, last summer...

Author: By Charles Sklarsky, | Title: Chicago's Loud Revolution: The Blackstone Rangers | 4/29/1967 | See Source »

...phrases that really rocked the U.N. Plaza were those of Stokely Carmichael: "There is a higher law than the law of Racist McNamara; there is a higher law than the law of the fool Dean Rusk; there is a higher law than the law of the buffoon Lyndon Baines Johnson." Though Stokely never defined it, his law was demagoguery, pitched to all authority haters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People: The Dilemma of Dissent | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Ferrari, who begged Mario to drive for him on the Grand Prix circuit; the Grand Prix races conflicted with Andretti's previous engagements, and besides, Ferrari doesn't pay enough. "Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool," says Andretti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: What Is This Danger? | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

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