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...instinct, at least for politicians in an election year, to resist cuts in domestic spending, Shriver will doubtless get his $1.75 billion. As Democratic Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida observed, "We used to say we don't want any of that tainted federal money. Now we say 'tain't enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: Six-Star Sargent | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle, and told one anecdote that didn't get into the book. The general, said he, had a reputation as a ladies' man once, even used to pursue the same demoiselles as his former comrade-in-arms Marshal Henri Pétain. Well, a friend asked the general in later years if the story was true. "Ah, oui," De Gaulle answered. "Pétain and I were sometimes on the same terrain. But not on the same night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 28, 1966 | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...century French academic who painted romances of gladiators and Napoleonic battles. Also from 1965's crop: Salvador Dali in the Act of Painting Gala in the Apotheosis of the Dollar in Which You Can See on the Left Marcel Duchamp Masquerading as Louis XIV Behind a Vermeerian Cur tain Which Actually Is the Invisible Face but Monumental of Hermes by Praxiteles. It covers quite a bit of art history in a style that describes Dali himself-a pastiche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: The Comedian & the Straight Man | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...901A [July 30], I feel compelled as a professional pilot to make these comments: The CAB concedes that the compass may have been 15° off, that the altimeter may have been off, and that someone on the ground falsified a weather report. Yet the board concludes that Cap tain Norris and his passengers are dead because of his error! Captain Norris' only errors seem to have been believing that a federally licensed mechanic would fix a compass and/or an altimeter, that a person on the ground would tell him the truth about a serious matter, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1965 | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...telephone interview last, night, Detective Captain James J. Cavoti of the Rochester police, who supervised the investigation, vigorously denied the newspaper's assertion. A reliable source in Rochester affirmed that the diaries con- tain "nothing indecent or scandalous...

Author: By Herbert H. Denton jr., | Title: Rochester Holds Former Students On Drug Charge | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

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