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...hardy band of holdout colleges is stubbornly bucking the irreversible trend toward greater reliance on Washington. These schools even shun the federal help already available, prefer to try to make it on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Aid: Going It Alone | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...four counties out of five. Widely blanketed by local prohibition laws, the South teems not only with "brown bag" joints, to which the patron brings his own bottle in a paper bag, but also with moonshine distilleries. Yet legal drinking is on the rise throughout the South; the last holdout state, Mississippi, repealed its prohibition law last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: HOW AMERICA DRINKS | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...barely 40 miles across the low hills to the south, Mayor (Mukhtar) Said el Khatib believes that, "some of them know more than we do about the property back home." It is a knowledge that is cultivated. "When our sons first speak," says Masa'ad Haidary, 43, a holdout Arab warrior until 1948, "Palestine is in their mouths, and each morning before they eat we speak to them of Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Return Visit to Despair | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

American Motors Corp., which had been the lone holdout in announcing its 1968 increases, led off the week's price play. The company declared an average 3.8%, or $89, boost in its compact Americans (now $1,923 for the two-door model) and medium-sized Rebels ($2,420 for the four-door sedan). Tagging its new Javelin sporty car at $2,459, A.M.C. also boosted the luxury Ambassador line by some $120, to $2,671, including now-standard air conditioning. With that, the company loosed another breezy salvo in its new ad campaign: "Either we're charging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Shuffle & Cut | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Only notable holdout: Washington's National Gallery, which on its own has raised $75,000 for CRIA but has a set policy against lending any foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Tapping the Mother Lode | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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