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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy-McCarthy factions. Three of the Vice President's favorites for a partner on the ticket are Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris, Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, and San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Catholic liberal of whom Humphrey thinks highly. A better known possibility would be Sargent Shriver, who might reconcile some of the Kennedy partisans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Elated and Divided | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...sidewalk Romeos of Rome are among the world's most aggressive. Known locally as "pappagalli" (parrots) for their incessant and provocative chatter ("Eh, bella, you speaka English? Wanna spaghetti? I give you little spaghetti, huh?"), they trail women tourists through the Via Veneto, along the Spanish Steps, and around the Fountain of Trevi. Gabbing often gives way to grabbing, and the pappagalli are adept at supplementing their spiels with patting, pinching and poking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Policing the Pappagalli | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...going on in the world," and that posters are one way to keep the man in the street posted. Her program got under way in 1961, when the List family foundation made a grant of $200,000 to New York's Lincoln Center to pay for well-known artists to design more elaborate posters than might otherwise have been used. Soon, requests for quality posters began pouring in from colleges, museums and other institutions. To meet the rising demand, Mrs. List last fall joined with Boston Art Dealers Barbara Krakow and Portia Harcus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: Keeping Posted | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...truck-hauled float known as the Jazzmobile swings noisily through New York City, offering two-hour concerts in front of neighborhood community centers. Now in its fourth year, the Jazzmobile features first-rate jazzmen (Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson), sometimes attracts 3,000 listeners at a time. It is an independent offshoot of the Harlem Cultural Council, and private firms, such as Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., pay most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concerts: Taking to the Streets | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...will not begin unwrapping their new wheels until later this month. Why the rush? Maybe because A.M.C. has a lot to show this year. "We've got a whole line of cars to sell now," says A.M.C. President William V. Luneburg. "This company will never again be known as a one-product outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Happy Early New Year | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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