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Time to Go Straight. Unlike most other shoestring satirical publications that flood the market these days, Grump carries no identifiable political label. "People get a pleasant surprise when they open Grump" says Price, "because they think any new magazine is either leftist or dirty. We are in the moral middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Humor in the Moral Middle | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

Because it bears the heaviest legacy of colonialism, Africa teems with more new nation afflictions than anywhere else. But the problem of nations that are really not nations by any reasonable standards is worldwide: Latin America has British Guiana, which wants to go its own way on a shoestring; the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE PASSIONS & PERILS OF NATIONHOOD | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

Bouncing Back. However they make their money, the self-made millionaires have many traits in common. Almost all of them decided early in life to be their own bosses. Most of them started earning money while still children: by the time he was 13, Arthur Carlsberg had been a caddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millionaires: How They Do It | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Computers have been used infrequently in the past to pair up dates for specific dances. But Match's punch-card cupid has far larger horizons, deals in wide areas and adapts to any occasion. Founders Vaughn Morrill and Jeff Tarr launched their enterprise last February on a shoestring budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: My IBM Baby | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

Convict Robert Pennell, 26, was trimming tree limbs with a North Carolina prison road gang last month when he stumbled over a small hole. Falling forward, he stuck out his left hand to catch himself, just as a fellow prisoner swung a sharp ax. The swipe accidentally chopped off Pennell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Helped by a Clean Cut | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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