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Word: vegetarian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those old movies about a group of wildly disparate travelers locked together in a tight situation. For the people are plausible only as creations of a novelist at the end of his rope, searching for something to add zest to his book. A 1948 Presidential candidate on the Vegetarian ticket and his stiff-upper-lipped wife; a mysterious adventurer, escaping from Philadelphia; a Negro undertaker who utters only "yes" and "no" and bursts into tears at the end of the trip--almost a floating "I Love Lucy...

Author: By William W. Sleator, | Title: Committed, Uncommitted Stage Dull Drama on Greene's New Set | 2/9/1966 | See Source »

...Greeneland scenes: pursuit, betrayal, suicide, failure, adulterous love. Brown is returning to the hotel-emptied of tourists by Papa Doc Duvalier's inhospitable island regime-that he has been unable to sell in the States. Smith, a 1948 U.S. presidential candidate who polled 10,000 votes on the vegetarian ticket, dreams of converting the Haitians to a diet of Yeastrol and Nuttoline. Jones drifts in and out of focus as an ambiguous, flat-footed soldier of fortune so encircled by his enemies that Port au Prince is his last remaining port of call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guided Tour of Greeneland | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...favor seekers and admirers that surround any politician. A chauffeur and a single white-clad bodyguard accompany him in a black, Indian-built Hindustan Ambassador sedan to his office in the circular, sandstone Parliament House. Office routine-sometimes 17 hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed the premiership, have done little to slow Shas-tri's dogged pace. He is blessed by an old Nehru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Pride & Reality | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...naturalized American, he spent World War II as an OSS agent parachuting into Burmese jungles to search for Japanese prisoners. On a postwar assignment, he sneaked Hungarian boxcars past the Russian occupiers to help rebuild West Germany's railways. Deak still keeps in OSS trim with a vegetarian diet, daily sprints around his own suburban running track, and ski trips with his Viennese wife. From a paneled office (cable address: Deaknick) overlooking lower Manhattan harbor, he supervises more than 100 agents working for Deak & Co., one of the world's biggest dealers in foreign currencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: The World of Deaknick | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...position in man's direct ancestry. He was sure that Zinjanthropus was a toolmaker because crude stone tools were found near his remains. Many anthropologists disagreed with both these conclusions, and now Dr. Leakey has changed his mind. He now believes that Zinjanthropus was an Australopithecine, a nonhuman vegetarian of low intelligence and not a toolmaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: Pygmy Progenitor? | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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