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...gone almost that far already, playing while holding a poodle on a leash ("It's harder if the dog isn't housebroken"), while tied to his doubles partner, while running around four chairs obstructing his side of the court, while wearing an overcoat, while carrying a pail of water. In a sunburst of understatement, he says: "I'm a fun guy, I'll do anything for excitement, I'm a ham." Ham? Henny Youngman is merely a ham. Bobby is an extraterrestrial peculiarity. At the antic rate he is going, yaks and Bulgarian bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bobby Runs and Talks, Talks, Talks | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...something like Watergate coming because of Nixon's self-imposed isolation from the party structure and his reliance on the Committee for the Re-Election of the President: "Why, the local CREEP man told me during the last election, 'We don't need the lunch-pail vote.' Can you believe it? I can't convince myself that Nixon had any part in planning this thing, but I'm astounded at his pygmy-minded approach in disregarding the party structure and bringing in these people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: How Main Street Views Watergate | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

Boston Police Detective David Campbell said yesterday that the thieves were probably more interested in the typewriter than the sculpture. He added that the $3000 arrangement of stainless-steel cubes "might be in a garbage pail or destroyed...

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley, | Title: Police Fear Thieves Dumped Valuable Sculpture by Mistake | 5/22/1973 | See Source »

...competition, he will play while being tied to his doubles partner, while holding a poodle on a leash ("It's harder if the dog isn't housebroken"), while running around four chairs placed on his side of the court, or wearing an overcoat or carrying a pail of water. One estimate puts Riggs' lifetime betting take at $500,000. Says he: "I'm the best money player ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Mother's Day Hustle | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...party at present stands for majority interests. As McGovern's campaign manager, Gary Hart, put it in his postmortem: "People who used to be poor are not poor any longer. Their interests are not the same. So it isn't enough to say Democrats, Democrats, lunch pail, lunch pail." Only with this insight can the Democrats begin their road back to reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Look Back in Anger | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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