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...gonna growl like a tiger on the prowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Son of Rock 'n' Roll Quiz | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

...course, which varies with the terrain, he comes up almost immediately against two 5-ft.-high fences: the first keeps out stray animals, the second needs only the slightest touch to set off a cacophony of alarms. Just beyond them is a dog run, where 247 German shepherds already prowl sectors of the border. The escapee may also stumble over wires rigged to trigger flares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Design for a Nightmare | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...Shut Up. For his own major skirmish in that war, in the East Room of the White House, Johnson broke completely with his usual press-conference choreography. Thanks to a lavalier microphone, he was able to leave the lectern and prowl back and forth on a makeshift stage-all the while chopping the air, clutching his breast, slapping, clenching and conjoining his big hands to pound home his points, toying with his glasses and abandoning his previous deadpan, Sunday-sermon visage for a range of grins and grimaces, smiles and scowls worthy of a Method actor. All the while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Look of Leadership | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

While most U.S. corporations are continually on the prowl for ripe acquisition possibilities, merger fever is just beginning to infect Britain, which still abounds with inefficient, low-profit companies that duplicate products and services. Ironically, the Socialist government has been the primary booster of a trend toward bigger business, and in 1966 formed the Industrial Reorganization Corporation to promote and help finance regroupings in industry. As it happens, the chief beneficiaries of the government-sponsored merger wave are groups of experts who act as brokers for companies in search of a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Britain's Cult of Bigness | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...Tiger Makes Out. On the dark streets of Manhattan, a neurotic off-duty postman (Eli Wallach) goes on the prowl. Tired of being a second-class male, he decides to turn himself into a parcel of sexual energy. Mumbling to pretty girls as they pass, he ends every sentence with a proposition-and remains ignored. In manic desperation, he zeroes in on a likely target, claps a raincoat over her head, and spirits her away to his apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Second-Class Male | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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