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...dialogue to their own versions of zany nightclub comedy. Chicago's Larry ("the Legend") Johnson has made a success out of calling odd people or faraway places to entertain his estimated 120,000 weekly listeners on station WIND. What's the weather like in Miami? Larry the Lege will call the Miami weather bureau and find out. Do the papers say that Princess Margaret is taking a salary cut? Call Buckingham Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Talk Jockeys | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...answer, supporters of the Bayh amendment argue that the two-party sys tem is not based on the Electoral Col lege alone, but on deep-seated American tradition and hundreds of thousands of lesser elections. In these races a party label is vital, and the two major political organizations would not necessarily be affected by a change in the electoral system. Presidential candidates would still need this wide web of support; the lack of party money and party workers would still discourage and inhibit maverick challengers. On balance, though, the Bayh amendment would probably weaken the two-party system, encourage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: HOW NOT TO ELECT A PRESIDENT | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

Similar Peaks. To make this delicate distinction, Weber set up identical instruments at his headquarters in Col lege Park, Md., and at the Argonne National Laboratory, outside Chicago, nearly 700 miles away. As expected, the wave patterns traced out were at first random and dissimilar because the readings were being taken so far apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relativity: Gravitating Toward Einstein | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

They include such high-quality liberal arts schools as Claremont Men's Col lege in California and Hanover College in Indiana. Also among them are New Mexico's Artesia College, which is still too new to be accredited, and a dozen little-known institutions operated by fundamentalist churches...

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

...blamed largely for the University of Pittsburgh's financial crisis, and professorial discontent with the summer work led to abandonment of the trimester by the state university sys tem in Florida. Yet this week some 800 students perspiring over final examinations at Wisconsin's Beloit Col lege testify to the fact that the trimester can live up to its early promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Beloit's Successful Trimester | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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