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...Every time you put your hand out," complained one top national Republican, "they spit in it." The metaphor may have been a little crude, but it could hardly have described more exactly relations between the national G.O.P. organization and the Young Republican National Federation. After a week of attempted handholding with a Y.R. convention in Omaha last week, senior Republicans may well have decided that it is easier to get along with Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Omaha Handshake | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...first plane, built in 1929, was an endearing spit-and-string monoplane called "the Doodlebug," and his most recent is the F-4 Phantom II, the Mach 2 workhorse of the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 2, 1967 | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...very, very intelligent caliber of boys," he said-and very, very early risers too. Aboard the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard, he wailed, "they told me my first show would be at 8 a.m. Eight in the morning! A singer like me doesn't even spit before midday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...John Kennedy's funeral. De Gaulle was correct, but hardly cordial. Johnson stuck by his own plan of how to handle le grand Charles. "You've seen boys playing," he had told his aides shortly before leaving for Europe. "One holds out his arm and says, 'Spit over it.' The one boy spits and the other moves his arm, and of course the boy misses and spits on the arm, and then the first one gets mad and wants to fight. Well, De Gaulle is like the boy daring the other one to spit over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Gathering at the Grave | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

Swallow or Spit? Though lumping all these people in a union of "artists" is a bit like calling a tailback a tap dancer, the performance of some of the pinch newscasters was worthy of an Emmy, or at least a Hammy, for the best comedy show of the season. Scripts rattled, eyes squinted at TelePrompTers. In Chicago, WLS Advertising Director Frank Nardi made his broadcasting debut as a substitute disk jockey, struggled hysterically to keep up the machinegun patter. Sample: "Hey there! That was the great Ramsey Lewis Duo. . . aah. . .trio. . .whee. . .It's. . .aah. . . . . .three minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Portrait of the Artists | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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