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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mothers with deep affection. Eric Priestley is constantly pained by the thought that his 65-year-old mother, who has a bad heart, still does housework for other people and that his father, 63, who has hardening of the arteries as well as a bad heart, must still mow lawns to keep a rented roof over their heads. Patricia Cabbell, 25, who clerks at Federal City College for 18 hours a week while studying nursing, is determined to earn the pride of her father, a Baptist minister who did not go to college. "I'm his hope," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Working-Class Collegians: The True Believers | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...part, Hubert Humphrey retired to his home in Waverly, Minn., to "put in fence posts and mow the lawn," and also to reassess the new political horizon. That reappraisal, if some of Robert Kennedy's top aides have their way, will force Humphrey closer to the late Senator's position on Viet Nam, and may even persuade the Vice President that he should ballast his ticket with Ted Kennedy. In fact, the surviving brother is known to be high on Humphrey's list of running mates, along with Senators Fred Harris of Oklahoma and Edmund Muskie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Gene: Back to the Faithful | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...only people who are literally being deafened by the din of the technological age, Dr. Aram Glorig, director of the Callier Hearing and Speech Center in Dallas, believes that most Americans are all too blissfully ignorant of the hearing hazards in everyday life. "I wear earplugs when I mow the lawn," he says. Country living, he contends, is just as hard on the hair nerves as city life. "Take a group of skeet shooters who have been at it for five or ten years; every single one has got a severe high-frequency loss." Glorig tested the Marine Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHEN NOISE ANNOYS | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Denny McLain will start for the American League, and all he will be asked to do is mow down the likes of McCovey, Mays, Aaron, Clements, Santo, and Torre. McLain worked Saturday, but he'll work harder today...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Even With Great Scott in The Lineup, American League Stars Will Crumble | 7/12/1966 | See Source »

...Papa Oom Mow Mow--Rivingtons...

Author: By Andrew Beyer, | Title: The Answers You've All Been Waiting For: | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

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