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...beter players ascend to the Junior ranks, in either the "A" or "B" classification. This is the highest quality of amatour hockey in Canada...

Author: By Ronald I. Cohen, | Title: Junior A---Special Case? | 10/10/1962 | See Source »

Prophet Moses has a lamentable weakness for nubile girls, and his first mission fails when he tries to ascend to heaven from the top of a breadfruit tree. Instead he falls to earth, breaks his leg, and is carted off to the insane asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black God | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...permit overhead shots reminiscent of old Hollywood musicals. This camera can be aimed by remote control to focus on any group of instruments or on a closeup of Glenn Gould removing his mittens at the Steinway. Eight cameras outside the auditorium can pick up arriving audiences as they ascend the two grand staircases, buzz about the terrace galleries, eye one another in the promenade, or sip champagne in the cafe lounge. Backstage cameras will be ready to televise interviews in the Green Room or to invade individual dressing rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concert Halls: Big Brother at the Philharmonic | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...started to turn the plane, or the jet may have been climbing too steeply to make a safe turn. Said Halaby: "It appears to have been some kind of mechanical failure in some part of the control system." Pilots theorized that the strict antinoise laws that force them to ascend rapidly after take-off and make perilous low-level maneuvers over heavily populated areas might have caused the crash of the huge jet. The Air Line Pilots Association has long argued that noise-abatement regulations were endangering flight safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Tragedy in Jamaica Bay | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...word under discussion, one takes a deep breath and says "tau" (as in cow), "martar," and then goes on from there, ending up with "tarhoo." For non-Maoris, the English translation is easier: "Hill Where the Great Husband of Heaven, Tane, Caused Plaintive Music from His Flute to Ascend to His Beloved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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