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...girls are simply not credited with, say, Columbo's powers of ratiocination or Kojak's ability to get off a cynical wisecrack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...wisecrack about France's prestigious civil service academy, L'Ecole Nationale d'Administration, has two graduating students bidding each other goodbye in the Paris courtyard, when one says to the other: "See you at the Elysée Palace in 20 years." That is no longer a joke. Having won last month's presidential election, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, one of the E.N.A.'s most brilliant graduates (class of '51), has not only taken over the Elysée but he also seems to have brought half of his old school with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Leaders | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Makers claim that they have increased the comfort of the new poromerics by doing without the fabric interlayers used to back the first generation of artificial leathers. Those interlayers made the material thick and stiff. Consumers shod in Du Font's product inspired the wisecrack, "Corfam shoes always look brand new; they always feel brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Synthetic Rebirth | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...South Korean contingent was awaiting orders to pack up. The first large-scale withdrawal of the 23,700 G.I.s still in Viet Nam was due to begin this week. A bulletin board at the MACV headquarters at Tan Son Nhut sported an old but newly appropriate wisecrack: LAST ONE OUT, PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Last Battles And a New Siege | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...oath of office and make his Inaugural speech at the east front of the Capitol. After a quick lunch with Congressional leaders, who are expected to be too polite to talk about their current disagreements with Nixon, he will review the parade. (It is not true, as a Washington wisecrack about Nixon's recent isolation has it, that the parade will be routed past Camp David and he will send aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman out to review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Celebration in Washington | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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