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Alternative Actions. Dump-Johnson movements were forming in scores of cities, aiming at blocking his renomination or at least embarrassing him with strong anti-L.B.J. showings in the primaries. In California, the names of such entertainers as Actor Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and Comedian Dick Van Dyke appeared on the letterhead of the newly formed Dissenting Democrats. New York's fractious reform Democrats were seeking to run slates of anti-Johnson delegates in next June's primary. In Washington, the Conference of Concerned Democrats was preparing to challenge him. In Pittsburgh, supporters of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Thunder from a Distant Hill | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...unusual confrontation, President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu, flanked by Ky and their aides, decided to come out of the palace and meet the monk. Loudspeakers broadcast a curbside debate between Thieu and Tri Quang to several thousand Vietnamese who gathered to watch, smiling and drinking soda pop. The militant Buddhists were angry because Thieu had approved Moderate Buddhist Thich Tarn Chan as the official spokesman for Viet Nam's United Buddhist Church, a loose association to which most of the nation's Buddhist sects belong. It is a position of influence that Tri Quang coveted for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Monk Without a Cause | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Died. Robert Hans van Gulik, 57, Dutch creator of the Judge Dee Chinese mystery tales (The Willow Pattern, Murder in Canton); of cancer; in The Hague. An Orientalist by training and an ambassador by trade (to Japan, Malaysia), van Gulik was studying ancient Asian prose when he found the classic magistrate-detectives of Chinese literature. Supplying Occidental motives but preserving the delicate puzzle plots of the 7th century Tang dynasty, he pitted his wise and wily Dee against tyrants, palace power-seekers and assorted hatchetmen in 17 thrillers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 6, 1967 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...billed in the catalogue as Prof. Ackerman's course, but placed at the last moment in the worthy hands of young, brilliant Everett Fahy. Fahy teaches Fifteenth Century Italian Art with a sympathy for both his subject and his students. For Low Country fans, there is Prof. van Regteran Altena, who wowed his first class by delivering a forty-minute lecture in verse (on Seventeenth Century Dutch Art). The rest of the lectures in Fine Arts 158 (M. W. F. at 11) will be prose efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last-Minute Shopping | 10/3/1967 | See Source »

Curtis' Kicks. Phyllis Diller owns three Excaliburs, in yellow, silver and grey-presumably rotated to match her hair. Bobby Darin, Eddie Albert, Actor James Darren, Batman Adam West and Writer Rod Serling have one apiece. Steve McQueen got one for his wife. Dick Van Dyke and his wife wear raccoon coats while tooling around in their yellow model; when people yell hello, Dick and Marjorie wave little pennants that say "HI." Tony Curtis sold his two Excaliburs. He's got four other cars anyway, and besides, Tony gets his kicks now by restoring authentic antique cars. "I suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Stars' Cars | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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