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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think they've flipped their lids," said a bystander. The reaction from the train was stronger. "Beatniks," snorted one grande dame as she pushed her way toward her chauffeur-driven limousine. "It's certainly not Southampton," sniffed another. What was happening was a Happening-a combination of artists' ball, carnival, charade, and a Dadaesque version of the games some people play. The Neutron Kid, glowering through his full beard and dark glasses, was none other than Allan Kaprow, 38, the artist who seven years ago gave Happenings their name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Happening at the Hamptons | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...turned into an out-and-out battle between Newcomer Hooker and the powerful Tennessee political machine controlled by Ellington and present Governor Frank Clement, who was running for the Senate in last week's primary. The organization, which has controlled the Statehouse for the last 14 years, proved stronger. Hooker failed in the urban areas he expected to carry, lost the Negro votes he had so stylishly courted. Ellington won 53% of the votes, and Frank Clement nosed out U.S. Senator Ross Bass for the Democratic senatorial nomination. There was no talk of a Kennedy defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennessee: Machine v. Style | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Opportunity Broadens. Wall Street is leary of the movie industry because it so often soars and dips on hit movies or bombs. In spite of success, United's price-earnings ratio has stayed low, and its opportunity to grow has been hampered. Now, with financial backing from stronger Consolidated, it will be able to explore such fields as television, books, magazines and music publishing. Under the Cummings system of decentralized management, moreover, United's old team will continue to run the motion-picture business. All Cummings will have to do, he hopes, is count the earnings and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: From Food to Films | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...wrote a wealth of music for it. Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton and Pepys celebrated its endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced by the stronger tones of the transverse flute. Then, in the early 1920s, an English musician, Arnold Dolmetsch, began making and playing recorders, and started a revival that spread slowly to Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instruments: Pipe with a Pedigree | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...this is enough to turn a discriminating wine fancier to stronger stuff. Henrion does not argue that fine wine should be handled like Préfontaines or that Préfontaines is a fine wine. "In my mind," he says, "this is something else, like Coca-Cola, like beer. It should be marketed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Rich Little Wine | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

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