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...great voice. But he reminds me of my favorite animal when I was a boy on the farm. I always refer to my good friend from Washington as 'Maggie.' That was the name I gave to my old friend on the farm - Maggie. He was a jackass." For a moment Maggie looked as if he had just been kicked by one. Finally he came back with a retort that was, at best, second best: "The Senator keeps some gabby old hens down there too, does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Conflict of Interests | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...nation's most ambitious space programs, is designed to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine that could carry man to the moon or beyond. Nerva is the engine itself. Rift the vehicle that Nerva will push. President Kennedy had just returned from a tour of Jackass Flats, 90 miles out of Las Vegas, where work on Rover is under way. He had gone because New Mexico Senator Clinton Anderson, former chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and now a member of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, had warned him privately that Rover was sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Care & Feeding of Rover | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...religious, with some of the most irreverent news coverage ever committed to print. BRIDE OF THREE WEEK'S BEATS ASS OFF HUSBAND went one typical Independent headline above a story telling how a young farm wife in neighboring Camden County had bravely rescued her husband from an aggressive jackass. Even the clergy was not immune from attack. After one Baptist preacher denounced him from the pulpit, Saunders discovered and published the fact that the preacher owned the only bawdyhouse in town. Another Independent editorial volley, aimed at an anti-Semitic evangelist named Mordecai Ham, blew down the revivalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Irreverent Crusader | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...Berry-berry Willart (Warren Beatty) takes a long, slow pull of bourbon. "Funny things happen t'me alla time," he says reflectively. "Dunno why. Dunno what I'm gonna do next. I just-live fer kicks!" And he lays back his ears and laughs like a jackass that can smell the old pea patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Attack of Berry-berry | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...Cuban and Spanish Loyalist flags on the embassy pole, threw tomatoes, shouted and waved banners reading DOWN WITH FRANCO! OUT WITH LOJENDIO! TO SPAIN OR TO PRISON ! Another mob trailed Lojendio to the airport next morning, yelling as he boarded a plane for home: "Get out, you jackass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Circus in Town | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

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