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Such a dangerous thought is bound to quicken the blood of any true-blue mediaphobe. Yet interpreting election results is as inescapable as it is necessary. It is a game any number can play, and it would be better if more did, for reporters, questioning each other in the intimacy of press buses, are in danger of returning lookalike, inbred answers. Actually, interpreting requires no press card. One need only give the subject as much study as thousands of Americans devote to their Daily Racing Form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: From Unknown to 'What's He Really Like?' | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...presidential campaign begins to quicken, and the candidates become more prominent, the threat can come from anywhere at any time. Some of the worst products of American society can suddenly lash out at some of the best. The most harrowing warning came from Squeaky Fromme herself. In the documentary Manson, she coolly pointed out: "Anybody can kill anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIOLENCE: THE GIRL WHO ALMOST KILLED FORD | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Since then, Neier has taken that aggressive stance even further. "In the past," he says, "we spent most of our lobbying time trying to stop bad bills." Now there is also active prodding and proposing of new laws: Neier wrote his just-published book Dossier to "help quicken the movement" for legal curbs on both private and Government information gatherers. The chubby young executive director has also developed specialists who push for the rights of such groups as homosexuals, minors and servicemen-sometimes even before they organize in their own behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Libertarian Lobby | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...drug in normal doses for the rest of his life. In addition, Mclntire ordered F.D.R. to shorten his work schedule to only six hours a day, a cutback that the President docilely accepted until the 1944 race against New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey began to quicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY: F.D.R.'s Conspiracy of Silence | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...returning and transferred to Stanford University. I figured that Stanford was the perfect compromise: I could continue my education at the "Harvard of the West" while simultaneously enjoying the pleasures of California. I figured wrong. When strangers said hello to me while walking by on campus, I would quicken my pace and look the other way. How well I had learned my lessons at Harvard...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: East From California: | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

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