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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Al Kaline lined to Carl Yastrzemski who, naturally, caught the ball and threw crisply to third base in a vain attempt to double off McAuliffe. It was a good throw, but Dalton Jones couldn't find the handle, and the ball skittered away, letting McAuliffe score. Before the horrible inning was over, Willie Horton got a wind-blown double to center, Freehan another scratch single both off the hapless Culp--and Oyler a run-scoring single off reliever Lee Stange...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Impossible Dreamers Drop Boston Opener to Detroit | 4/17/1968 | See Source »

...only major Federal gun laws on the books. The NRA often points to them as examples of "responsible" gun legislation. If ineffectiveness is an index of responsibility, the NRA is right. The National Firearms Act did cut down the number of machine guns in circulation, but latter-day Al Capones have had little trouble finding substitutes...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: The NRA: The Gun-Men Meet in Boston | 4/16/1968 | See Source »

Some of the more satisfying of this season's offerings in Manhattan's smaller theaters: Ergo, a wacky expressionist exercise by Austrian Writer Jakov Lind; In Circles, an aptly named circular play by Gertrude Stein set to circular music by Al Carmines; Iphigenia in Aulis, a Euripedean antiwar drama that has lost little of its force through the centuries; The Indian Wants The Bronx, Israel Horovitz's study of the savagery that can lurk on any street; Your Own Thing, a marvelously modern, inventive and sophisticated rock version of Twelfth Night...

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

...Renegades cannot expect impunity," Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev told a Moscow party meeting last week. "The Soviet public harshly denounces the abominable deeds of these double-dealers." Brezhnev was talking about the country's increasingly restless intellectuals, many of whom have al ready been subjected to show trials and long prison sentences for displeasing the state. Before the situation gets better for them, Brezhnev indicated, it will get much worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Word of Warning | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...modern helicopter technology, effecting many improvements in the control and design of the overhead rotor. The J-2's rotor is stronger but also lighter and smaller than previous rotors, enabling it to be run up to speed faster. When heavier rotors used in the 1930s were al lowed to slow down, their inertia prevented them from being revved up quickly, causing control problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Return of the Autogiro | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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