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...forget these things." Particularly in Dixie. "I don't think Texans would vote for Rockefeller," says Republican State Committeeman Albert Fay, "if Jesus Christ were his running mate." They just might if Ronald Reagan were. Indeed, signs of grudging support for an R. & R. ticket are beginning to sprout even in the South's stony soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Anchors Aweigh | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...plastic manikins from which the exterior genitals can be removed to reveal the apparatus within. One sex educator in Detroit demonstrates the stretching of the uterus with a rubber ball inside a sock, and the growth of the human embryo by soaking beans in water until they swell and sprout. Teachers get much help from movies in schools that can afford them. From the fairly tame animal films on the kindergarten level, they range to Human Reproduction, featuring body models with all organs clearly labeled; Phoebe, the story of a lovely girl and what happens to her when she becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT SEX | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Levitt's preoccupation today, as he guides his widening empire from an opulent headquarters at Long Island's Lake Success, is creating a new city of a size hitherto only dreamed of: 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 population. It would sprout in 50,000-people installments on a still-secret site in the countryside "where the air is still as God made it." Only by this kind of leap beyond the suburbs, Levitt persuasively argues, can the urbanizing U.S. remain fit to live in as it doubles its present physical plant over the next 35 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building: After the Levittowns | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...stacked in supermarkets, racked in discount houses, packed in drugstores. The market is manic. Retail outlets now number about 120,000, and still they cannot stock the 190,000 titles in hard and soft cover that are currently in print, let alone the 28,000 additional titles that sprout every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: A Cerfit of Riches | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Berlin) into the boiler room and begs her for understanding. Says she fretfully: "The trouble with getting inside your head is that once I'm there I'm on my own." Brose has been growing mushrooms in the boiler room, and near curtain's drop they sprout hallucinogenic caps. Brose munches on one and can see Mrs. Murray naked. She flees, trying desperately to shield herself with her personnel folder. "D'you like happy endings?" says Brose with a happy wink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bim Bom Ban Bang On | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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