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...year of wee-hour skull sessions, G.O.P. strategists could hardly have cooked up such a promotional coup. The idea would have seemed too stagy or cloyingly obvious: the candidate's perky, pretty 20-year-old daughter Julie becoming engaged to the 20-year-old grandson of Dwight Eisenhower on the very eve of the presidential primary race. They would then campaign hand-in-hand toward November victory and a White House wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Love Ticket: David and Julie | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

39TH MAJOR LEAGUE ALL-STAR BASEBALL GAME (NBC, 8-11 p.m.). Sandy Koufax and Pee Wee Reese analyze the action at the Houston Astrodome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 5, 1968 | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...price of each card for its effort. To help manufacturers boost sales of everyday products, N.S.M.C. "reps" place soft-sell posters on strategically located bulletin boards. In one such campaign, Alka-Seltzer offered to send a "cramming pillow-it allows you to cram effortlessly until the wee hours" to anybody who sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Putting a Thesis to Work | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...Thames would be quite an adjustment for anybody. Added to that was the pressure of starting work on her second major film role in Secret Ceremony. So Mia Farrow, 23, had a problem. It got out of hand after Mia, in her mini mini, danced until the wee hours at a Burton party at London's Dorchester Hotel, then turned up absent from the scene next morning. After a couple of days, the film makers dispatched an emissary to a private psychiatric clinic in Middlesex. No Mia, and a clinic spokesman refused to say whether she had been there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 5, 1968 | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...easier viewing. To prevent any possible confusion about which are the remains to be seen, each window has a drop-in name plaque. "This is the glass age," says Thornton, explaining the convenience of the arrangement for both his customers and himself. "Families often come by in the wee hours of the morning, and you have to get up for them," he adds a bit defensively, "and this will also make it easier for elderly people, who can just sit in the car. There's no need to dress up this way, either." Nor need friends of the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Car: THE CAR | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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