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...Boston may be backward on matters of education, but on the extermination of pigeons [Oct. 18] it surely ranks No. 1! I submit the following method, which we used three years ago at our apartment in the Back Bay section...
...relieved to read that TIME, too, remains puzzled about Last Year at Marienbad! I'm sure the U.S. film industry could create the same sensation by running PT 109 backward in slow motion. HULON W. MYERS San Francisco...
...yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly on his stilts...
...25th Mwata Yambo (Great Chief) received the adulation of his people. His ascension is an interesting case history of the tribalism that is still deeply rooted in the Congo; for on a continent where firebrand leaders talk constantly of forging ahead, Mwata Yambo XXV has won success by forging backward...
...Cleveland teen-agers imitate Ghoulardi as if he were the exemplar deity of an unimaginably perfect race. When he invented the word Knif-fink spelled backward-and began offering Knif buttons, he got requests for thousands. High school teachers hold spelling bees between Knifs and Ghoulardis, and football coaches similarly divide their teams for intrasquad scrimmages. One day Anderson said: "All the world's a purple Knif." Now every kid in Cleveland is saying that. He thinks the name Oxnard, as in Oxnard, Calif., is hilarious. He named a crow Oxnard. Kids all over the Cleveland area are calling...