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...more people do not realize where the real blame lies instead of looking for scapegoats and excuses, if more do not condemn this and every war, then this whole mass post-mortem will have been in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...found some Nader innovations irritating. On a drive across his Texas ranch, L.B.J. noticed a spot on the windshield of his new Chrysler and groped for the washer and wiper knobs. Still unfamiliar with the Nader-inspired safety feature of non-protruding knobs, Johnson pawed at the dashboard in vain while he continued to drive. Utterly frustrated, he turned to a passenger and muttered: "That goddamned Nader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE U.S.'s TOUGHEST CUSTOMER | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...slower than the record, Watts occasionally losing the beat, the lyres changed from fifteen to thirteen year-old girl (outrage, like any fashion, ages quickly). They do some slow numbers, a "Prodigal Son." Richard's steel guitar funkier and less evocative than the Rev. Robert Wilkins, and "Love in Vain," a Robert Johnson song, which Jagger, sketching out the Stones' new image, and rushed to keep ahead of mere satyriasis and the universal dope-taker, dedicates to "the minority groups in the audience, the fags and the junkies...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The flea-bit painted monkey Got Live If You Want It | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

...didn't come to mourn the death of Freddie Hampton, because he wouldn't have wanted us to cry. He would have wanted us to pick up a gun and intensify the struggle. He didn't die in vain, because he knew that if you've got nothing to die for, you've got nothing to live for either." Miss Jones said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1,000 Gather for YAF Rally; Radicals Protest Chicago Killing | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

...struggle was in vain, however, as Munk romped to a butterfly triumph, and Cahalan and Gerhart followed with a sweep in the 100-free. Gerhart had again allowed a Cadet out in front of him but rallied for his second behind Cahalan, whose time was a quick...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Tankmen Slaughter Army, 84-29, For Upset Win in League Opener | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

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