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...well the Kennedy magic will work remains to be seen. But with magic made up of money, seasoned staff, slick advertising, and a weak opponent, Teddy may be back in the ball game...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: An Assault on the Senate From Maine to Wyoming Presidential Hopefuls And National Unknowns Face the Nixon-Agnew Onslaught | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Humphrey has hit back by labeling McGregor's style "cheap, slick polities." McGregor will be hurt by his pro-Nixon record in the House and Humphrey by his own record as Vice President and 1968 Presidntial candidate. Humphrey is a clear favorite, and only a late McGregor surge could send him back to the drug store in Waverly...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: An Assault on the Senate From Maine to Wyoming Presidential Hopefuls And National Unknowns Face the Nixon-Agnew Onslaught | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Cramer is running a slick, wellfinanced campaign and is proud to tell the folks that he is running "because President Nixon asked me to." Nobody of such stature asked Chiles to run, so he walked-1,003 miles down the middle of the state. In a revival of the old person-to-person vote-getting style that made Estes Kefauver so popular in the South ten years ago, Chiles has had personal chats with thousands of his constituents. He has met thousands more since the primary and shuns the television, airplane, newspaper gimmicks of his opponent...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: The Battle for the Senate | 10/23/1970 | See Source »

...quote Grace Slick as saying that she is a little worried about her pregnancy, "what with all the weird drugs we've been taking," and that the happy parents-to-be have already picked a name for the child-"God." May I suggest for a middle name-"Speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1970 | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...middle of 1966, several old San Francisco friends had got together a promising rock band called Big Brother and the Holding Company. Since the Jefferson Airplane had Signe Anderson (later replaced by Grace Slick), the boys sent for Janis to be their lead singer. She began to learn about rock 'n' roll, and to please her, they began to learn about the blues. By the time of the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, after months of hard practicing in Haight-Ashbury, they were ready. The documentary film Monterey Pop is the celluloid affidavit of their triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blues for Janis | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

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