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...toting good ol' boy who gives law enforcement down South a certain cave man cast. The sheriff represents just that sort of legalized mayhem that made Walking Tall such a big hit, and one might expect that Macon County Line would try to follow along in its prede cessor's misshapen footprints, combining the nostalgia of Graffiti with the violence of Walking Tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Sting of Fact | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

Diamonds-Highest international soaring awards, earned for altitude gain of at least 16,404 ft., distance beyond 310.7 miles and a flight of at least 186.4 miles to a prede-clared goal. Minimums are in irregular numbers because they are based on metric units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Glider Talk | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...Walters be told that "discreet political actions and investigations on be half of the Administration are a firm requirement and responsibility on his part." The memo complained that Walters seemed no more willing to let the IRS be used for political purposes than had been his Nixon-appointed prede cessor, Randolph Thrower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Playing Politics with Tax Returns | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...Francisco, as hymned by the faithful, is not the American Paris; Paris is the French San Francisco. Yet last week even the most ardent San Franciscan had to admit that there was also an uncomfortable similarity between the city's lackluster politics and those of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic. As evidenced by the stampede of undistinguished candidates for mayor, San Francisco is in danger of becoming Bathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco: Bathos by the Bay | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

That evening he appeared at the second annual awards dinner of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation for the men tally retarded. Following a droll mono logue by Jack Benny and the whispery voice of Nat King Cole, Johnson spoke softly and solemnly about his prede cessor. "We shall finish his fight," he said, "and we shall conquer mental retardation and mental illness and poverty and every other foe of the land that he loved, and every foe of the people he served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: And Back to Texas | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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