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...explained the delay by saying he had been too busy to write his acceptance speech. Privately, he feared that becoming an "immortal" was an unnecessary challenge to his own mortality. Seventy-two hours after the ceremony, his seven-year-old niece went into his study to offer him some popcorn and found him dead of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Immortal's Parting Reverie | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...sorts of old superstitions have re-emerged in a new era, sometimes in new guises. One Chicago dealer in magical objects reports that "crystal balls are selling like popcorn" for as much as $23 apiece. New York's TBS Computer Centers Corp. now cranks out 20-page personal horoscopes for a mere $15, the electronic brain taking only a minute to compute a life history that flesh-and-blood astrologers need a week to prepare. Necromancy, the art of communication with the dead, has undergone a rebirth, abetted by California's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THAT NEW BLACK MAGIC | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...silently while a court official read the royal proclamation. Then he slowly signed three copies of the document, handwritten by official scribes and stamped with the royal seal. As he did so, a 21 -gun salute sounded outside, planes of the Royal Thai Air Force dropped flowers, rice and popcorn, and the gongs and drums of dozens of Buddhist temples reverberated across Bangkok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: A Constitution at Last | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

Carol Mann, 27, is a 6-ft. 3-in. mini-skirted blonde who loves popcorn, Mission: Impossible and André Kostelanetz. She professes to a belief that "positive thinking is the key to success," and she confesses to "a burning desire to set up housekeeping and start having babies." But patio parties and the P.T.A. will have to wait. For Carol is a traveling salesman's daughter, and she took up golf at eleven because "I only got to see my father on weekends; since he was a golfer I figured this would be a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: How About That Mann? | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...motive. It has permitted Ben Sack to bring new life to the Boston theatre district. Certainly, Sack's success has encouraged the creation of Boston's new independent theatres like the Abbey and the Charles Cinema. Sack makes no promises about his films. You can be sure that the popcorn will be buttered better, even if the film isn't quite up to par. And when your great-grandson gulps down his soma and runs out for a night at the "feelies," you can also be sure, that he will be going to a Sack Theatre--possibly the Cheri...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Has Success Spoiled Ben Sack? | 4/29/1968 | See Source »

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