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Unfortunately, only a few of us have had such loose-lipped advisors. But college officials have revealed enough about PRL to enable the student to make an educated guess at his own number.

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Command Pilot Armstrong is considered tight-lipped and phlegmatic, even in the notoriously taciturn fraternity of astronauts. "Silence is a Neil Armstrong answer," his wife Janet said in an interview with LIFE. "The word no is an argument." Last spring, he spent two full days with his father and never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon: THE CREW: MEN APART | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

Such native stylistic ploys, like poetry, suffer dreadfully even in the best of translations, and this one, by Barbara Bray, is much too stiff-lipped, too unbendingly British. Ultimately, what does Le Clézio in, is his decision to mirror his Life-is-shapeless-and-meaningless view in its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bugged Vegetable | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Moldy Chestnuts. What is expected of John Adams, intellectual Brahmin of Boston? Adams (William Daniels) must be thin lipped, disdainful, fanatical, puritanical, rapier tongued, and cordially disliked for rubbing his lazy-brained colleagues the wrong way with his indefatigable insistence on freedom. The audience may color him blueblood and relish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Birth of a Jape | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

What a coup! Magazines sold out on newsstands across the country. How did Esquire do it? In a manner worthy of a tight-lipped Hughes aide, Editor Harold Hayes huffed, "I think I must elect not to discuss it at all." No wonder. The man and woman are models. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Dubious Achievement Award | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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