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...since his own life is a sort of precursor to the unconventional convention people in the U.S. called the sexual revolution, it is hardly surprising that his portrait of marriage in our society, stripped down, gives a picture of separation and rebirth no more credible than a modern mate-swapper's claim of rebirth in the space of an evening. The changes the characters ascribe to themselves are not born out by the facts--they still talk about each other in the same self-centered...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: A Constant Snuggle | 11/26/1974 | See Source »

William Loeb, the frantically right-wing publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, said he was keeping an open mind about Rockefeller, whom he had called "the wife-swapper" in 1964 after Rockefeller's marriage. "He's now a staid old married man," Loeb said last week...

Author: By Kevin A. Stafford, | Title: Rocky Runs Right | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

...Taft, Barry Goldwater, Brigadier General Harrison Thyng-have a habit of losing. Richard Nixon doubtless has mixed feelings about Loeb's support in the current presidential primary. But better to be liked than hated by Loeb. In the 1964 primary, he referred to Nelson Rockefeller as a "wife swapper." Earlier, he called Leverett Saltonstall "that fatuous ass," and Eisenhower "that stinking hypocrite." So hot have been his attacks on the Kennedys that Bobby finally hit back: "If there's anyone more reckless with the truth, I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: The Eagle & the Chickens | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

They have descended to vicious mudslinging. Abraham Lincoln was once described as "a horrid-looking wretch . . . sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper and the night man." Andrew Jackson's mother was accused of being "a common prostitute, brought to this country by British soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Good-Tempered Candidate | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...other words a peerage for Sir Eric was to be swapped for a chairmanship for Sir Christopher. This sort of thing is often tolerated in cases where the swapper is an ordinary politician; but, the report released by the Prime Minister declared: "We think the whole course of proceedings shows, on the part of Bullock, a lack of that instinct and perception from which is derived a sure guide by which the conduct of Civil Servants should be regulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Incorrupt Indiscretion | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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