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...after Robert Kennedy died by a bullet, another sort of shooting was taking place in the comics. Encapsulated in his crime-busting space ship, Dick Tracy was just about to let his enemy Intro have it with a laser ray gun. "This is not a no-win game like the sadists play," Tracy shouted at Intro, below him aboard an old-fashioned yacht. "We're out to vaporize you." The strip, carried in 800 newspapers, then concluded with a panel showing a spindly hand, labeled "under world," being bashed by a gold bar. Said the caption: "Violence is golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Too Harsh in Putting Down Evil | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...defeated Hitler," he scoffs, "if it wasn't with violence? This is a war we're in, a battle against crime. We have to resort to violence to protect ourselves against evil." As if to underscore his point, Tracy continued merrily on his violent way. Having vaporized Intro in the Caribbean, he is asked by a late arrival where the enemy is. As the fumes rise from the placid waters, Tracy replies: "You're breathing him." "Beautiful afternoon," sighs the detective. "Sure is," agrees his sidekick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Too Harsh in Putting Down Evil | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...stamp of credibility. Advocates of the dialogue sermon point out that since industry, government and education have discovered the virtue of the seminar and the conference, the church should also explore this avenue of intellectual discovery. According to Dr. Robert Luccock, professor of homiletics at Boston University, the intro duction of dialogue in worship means that "we are beginning to take seriously the idea that every Christian is in a true sense a minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preaching: Backtalk from the Pew | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

Seven times since World War II Britain has deliberately throttled its seesaw economy to battle inflation or defend the pound. In the 14 months since Prime Minister Harold Wilson intro- duced the severest repression of all, the country has stumbled into an agonizing business slump. The self-inflicted wounds increasingly have fired acrimonious debate over what the London Times calls "the new theory of nobility through suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Suffering | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...intro from Auntie certainly didn't hurt. "She's absolutely charming, a perfectly natural performer," raved Actress Katharine Hepburn, 57. With that, she presented her niece, Katharine Houghton, 22, at a Hollywood press conference announcing that the lass would be teaming up with Aunt Kate to make a little satire called Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. And guess who introduced young Kath to Producer Stanley Kramer in the first place? Noting the family resemblance, Kramer cast the girl, whose previous experience included two TV shows and an ingénue's role in a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1967 | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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