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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good. The main trouble with Nixon's proposal is that it would eliminate the Congressman's main fount of patronage. The largesse includes 33,000 postmasterships and 34,000 rural free delivery jobs, all of which are doled out as political tribute with guidance from members of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Post Office: Taking the Mail Out of Politics | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...NCAA ruling that kept Harvard and two other Ivy Schools out of District playoffs for the NCAA World Series will be the main topic of discussion at a meeting of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League tomorrow in New York...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Eastern Baseball League Members To Discuss NCAA Playoff Ruling | 6/2/1969 | See Source »

...After my first two years here, the enjoyment I received from playing football and golf became the main reason I stayed with it," Wynne said. "Practices became a drag and jocks became friends," he added...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Liberated Tommy Wynne Moves Away From Golf | 6/2/1969 | See Source »

...main function of the military to further American imperialism in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRICE AT THE CONFRONTATION | 6/2/1969 | See Source »

...defended her own obsession with Gothic eccentricity in plain terms. "To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. It is most certainly Christ-haunted." She pursued her own art with a strict attention to the order, proportion and radiance of what she was creating. Perhaps that is why Mystery and Manners inadvertently provides a fitting epitaph for the books that she so artfully created before her death. "The fiction writer presents mystery through man ners, grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dust for Art's Sake | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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