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...Venezuela when they invaded the cities to try and prevent presidential elections in 1963, FALN terrorists have returned to the remote hill country, where they are engaged in Castro-style campaigns to murder local authorities and win over the peasantry. In Colombia's northeast, where they have back-to-back liaison with Venezuelan terrorists across the border, Communist bands have been shooting, looting, and haranguing the terrified populace to join in a people's revolt. In the southwest, Colombia's notorious Bandit-turned-Castroite Pedro Antonio Marín, 34, alias Sure Shot, leads some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The New Strategy | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

Alternately driven and dreaming, irresponsible and ingratiating, mean-spirited and maudlin, Audubon was inevitably misunderstood by contemporaries and, maintains Biographer Alice Ford, "errantly idealized" by her dozen-odd predecessors. As an antidote, Author Ford has presented, in rather stilted fashion, back-to-back facts that usefully clear away the web of fabrication that the Audubon family did their best to spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Prodigal Painter | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...Yanks broke it open in the sixth on back-to-back homers by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Two innings later Pepitone's grand slam helped the Yanks boost the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yanks Win, 8-3, To Even Series | 10/15/1964 | See Source »

John Dockery, who replaced Allan Liebgott in left field in the sixth, opened the eighth with a single to right. St. George sacrificed Dockery to second, but Del Rossi whiffed, and there were two men gone. Back-to-back singles earned Skip Falcone and Neville each an RBI before Nogelo got Patrick to ground out, second to first...

Author: By G. ROBERT Lucas ii, | Title: Del Rossi Throws Two-Hitter As Harvard Nine Edges Tufts | 4/11/1964 | See Source »

...sleuth cannot get into the target room, he will usually work from an adjacent room or corridor, where he may be able to slip a bug into an electrical outlet or heating duct, which are often back-to-back. Otherwise, he may drill a small hole through the wall and poke a thin plastic tube into it, just short of the far surface, so as to siphon sound waves into a microphone next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Bug Thy Neighbor | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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