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...longer papa but the computer who knows best how to help boy meet girl. Not so, as yet at any rate, in Japan, where the professional matchmaker still plies his ancient and honorable trade with a gusto no computer could possibly match. Perhaps the most successful in Japan today is wispy, 73-year-old Genkichi Ishizaka, who is perfectly certain that he knows the secret of making a marriage stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Eyes Have It | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...should be, anachronistic. Prohibiting indiscriminate exam make-ups was probably of value when Harvard College was devoted to squeezing the rudiments of a liberal arts education into the minds of the sons of alumni, before they went off to law school, medical school, or were absorbed into papa's firm. Harvard students then, if given responsibility to decide whether to take an exam when regularly scheduled or instead to take it the following make-up period, might have dug themselves into impossibly deep holes...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Play It Again | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...screamed, "O my God. Papa. Papa." And she spread her legs very wide, to let the man in. "Papa. O my God," she screamed again Her body began to writhe, then fell into a slow steady rhythm...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: In the New Pastures of Heaven | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

Grandma trots about in tennis sneakers and a red baseball cap. Papa is a fat slob in unbuttoned pajamas, who has spent a lifetime dabbling in experimental theater. Mama reminisces over an early tussle for bohemian freedom in which she and Papa made love in the front row of the orchestra during a performance of Tannhäuser. Currently, she sleeps with a grinning Neanderthal manservant named Eddie, while Papa affects not to notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Value Vacuum | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...Countess from Hong Kong), and Carlo Ponti, 55, her producer-husband: their first child, a boy, Carlo Jr.; in Geneva. Sophia's baby-7 lbs. 11 oz. and healthy as can be-came after years of yearning and three tragic miscarriages. She was overjoyed, while the exultant new papa promised to give Geneva a $ 1,000,000 obstetrical clinic "in gratitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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