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...idea was tried and abandoned in California. Billboard cars were made and spotted around the state. Like signposts, they began to attract bullet holes. Inevitably, it happened: a passing motorist took a potshot at what he thought was a dummy and killed a patrolman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1970 | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Married. Mort Sahl, 43, nightclub and TV comic, master of the political potshot; and China Lee, 28, Playboy playmate (August 1964) and Sahl's longtime girl friend; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 23, 1970 | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...while I am at it. Before you begin the usual literary potshot routine on our Governor Reagan, look at recent financial statements on" the state. You will note that a very wise mind is bringing stability into state government. And from this economic base expanding stability in many other social areas will develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Increasing numbers of medical men agree with it, among them James L. Goddard, who recently resigned as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Alarmed by widespread and often unverified acceptance of the idea, the A.M.A. and the National Research Council last week took a joint potshot at the drug in what the A.M.A. called a "major position paper" (translation: a report that falls just short of being official A.M.A. policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A.M.A.: Marijuana Warning | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

Hjalmar and his wife have built a happy house of illusions. In a constant alcoholic trance, Hjalmar's father stocks the attic with birds and rabbits, at which he takes an occasional potshot when he is in a hunting mood. Hjalmar himself is a dilettantish portrait photographer whose wife manages the business while he nurses the mirage that he is on the threshold of a world-shaking scientific discovery. The little girl (Jennifer Harmon) is content merely to love her supposed father and her pet wild duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Integrity Fever | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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