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...year-old mop man wears new Texas Wranglers beneath a soiled white apron, and the cook's slick black hair doesn't quite hide his bald spot. Blitman orders a Fried Egg Special. Two eggs over, hashed browns, one tough English muffin, a packet of marmalade, and regular coffee. Fifty-five cents. Joe Blitman has done Harvard on five dollars a day. The mop man sneezes into his shirt sleeve...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Harvard on $5 a Day | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

Long & Short. The illegitimate daughter of a pretty Jewish Dutch milliner turned Parisian courtisane, Sarah was a sickly, cranky and exceedingly homely child. Never in her life, in fact, did anyone suggest that she was beautiful. Her hair was a reddish-blonde mop, fuzzy and unruly, her nose overlong, her face hollow-cheeked and colorless, and she always emphasized her pallor by slathering on white powder. In an era when the feminine ideal was a dimpled and cushiony Venus, she was skinny as a slat. "An empty carriage pulled up at the stage door and Sarah Bernhardt got out," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Magnificent Lunatic | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...through startled crowds like advance men for oncoming chaos. They crash into pedestrians, jostle a Guardsman on sentry duty, all but knock down a pair of passing nuns. Finally, they gang up on a baby-faced brat (David Hemmings) in a convertible Rolls, a mod bod with a pop mop who has plainly gained the whole world without losing his cool. He flips the revelers a fiver and then Rolls away as the camera follows him to see what it can see of life in the swinging generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Things Which Are Not Seen | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Nine Dragons & Three Phases. The new doctrine is needed because the Viet Cong had long been brain-fed on Mao Tse-tung's legendary Three Phases to Communist triumph: 1) political activity, 2) guerrilla warfare, and 3) the final mop-up of the reeling enemy by large-scale fighting in conventional military formations. The U.S. intervened just as the Viet Cong were about to leave behind the rigors and hardships of Phase Two, and march out in strength to claim South Viet Nam. Since then they have tried periodic Phase Three attacks-and been badly mauled by American troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: Corruption & Defeatism | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Until 18 months ago, Leo Carter's job was to sweep, mop and polish the floors at Miami Beach's St. Francis Hospital. Today, as proprietor of The Best Floor Waxing Service, he is an entrepreneur with six employees. Mexican-born Joe Garcia, on relief in Manhattan eight months ago, now takes in about $240 a week as the operator of a midtown newsstand. David Flowers, who had to give up his job as a house painter after he injured his back in an auto crash, has become the owner of a thriving eight-pump, seven-employee service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Helping the Poor to Be Boss | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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