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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of this is tedious routine, but Tracers does not shun sly tactics. For example, to confirm that it has found Alfred Alumnus, whose last address was 1500 Shady Lane, Tracers may place a person-to-person call to William Alumnus at the suspected new address. "There's no William here; my husband is Alfred," the wife replies. Tracers' agent interrupts, tells the operator, "We're looking for the one who used to live at 1931 Shady Lane." "Oh no," says the wife, "we used to live at 1500-it's not us." But Tracers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alumni: How to Nail Alfred | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...rule, Fish volunteers shun personal publicity, finding enough reward in help done rather than praise received. Rector Howell believes that the organization has caught on so well because "we need specific outlets to help us show the substance of faith in our lives." Fish, he says, has not only given help to the needy, but has also given the volunteers themselves a new dimension of what Christianity means and a chance to live their faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecumenism: Dial Fish for Help | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...point of limpness. "Nervousness is bad for the breathing," she explains. Besides, "I don't have to live my reviews. I have something else to go home to"-meaning a husband, Canadian Conductor-Violinist Eugene Kash, and five children, aged two to ten. While most female opera singers shun childbirth for fear that it will some how hurt their voices, Mama Maureen insists that it has extended her range by 21 notes on top and 21 on the bottom, "one for each baby." She travels ten months of the year, with bookings arranged so that she can pop home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Something to Go Home To | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

...City liberal bloc has been decisive in the string of Republican successes in New York during the last twenty-five years. They have cheerfully deserted Democrats for Dewey, Ives, Javits, Rockefeller, Lefkowitz, Keating, and, most recently, Lindsay. In local races, they traditionally shun those Democrats against whom the Liberals have run their own candidate or supported the Republican...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: New Swing Voting Bloc To Decide New York Race | 10/4/1966 | See Source »

Opponents of liberals in the fall elections will probably shun the our raged, ideological rhetoric which contributed to the Goldwater disaster. Ronald Reagan and his corps of public relations advisors realize all too well that such antics can raise lots of money at rallies of Americans for constitutional Action el al, but have no place on the political stump or on TV anymore. Instead Reagan, who probably has better connections with more kooks than any man in the nation, is gearing his campaign to those who have become disenchanted with Governor Brown in the past eight years -- mostly restless Democrats...

Author: By John Andrews, | Title: A Conservative Comeback in the Making? | 8/23/1966 | See Source »

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