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...dozen of sacred cows involved in this scandal-they should be herded out in a roundup of honesty." Cheers and applause were thunderous. Even better: the $100-a-plate dinner netted nearly $400,000 for the Goldwater campaign treasury. > Governor Rockefeller returned to New York from his California swing-and probably wished that he had stayed away longer. The state assembly in Albany turned down a pet Rockefeller plan to provide $165 million in new state funds for public housing. What made the defeat even more chilling was the fact that Rocky's own Republican majority in the assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Candidates at Work | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle, was wont to require attendance at his dramatic platform demonstrations. On a mast labeled "Free Enterprise," he would hoist signs representing such virtues as "Loyalty," "Patriotism." and "Self-Reliance." Then he would pick up a stick called "Communism," take a hefty swing-and watch all the virtues come tumbling down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: The Ultras | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Tribal Rite Playing a qualifying round on the rugged, wind-whipped links at Pebble Beach, Calif., a nervous young Nevada golf pro named Tony Lema tried too hard to recover from a bad lie, took a prodigious swing-and disappeared. He had fallen off an 18-ft. cliff. No one seemed surprised. This was the 16th annual performance of the West Coast tribal rite-complete with fairway high jinks and off-course bottle belting-known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur Golf Championship. Lema's leap was just the kind of accidental clowning that the crowd had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tribal Rite | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...verse of the number, "Dandelions" is a short poem, delicate in fancy and excellent in execution-"A Toast to Clarinda," a rhymed toast with more or less swing-and "A Poor Scholar" (a trifle more ambitious than the other two), a poem whose theme is Love, prettily conceived and well-written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 6/10/1891 | See Source »

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