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...ticket (cost: $238). When the flight was announced, a child was lifted high to wave goodbye to its mother; a pregnant woman pressed forward for a last glimpse of her husband as he entered the plane. Just before the door shut, a policeman threw on board a straw basket forgotten by an excited traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Closed Door | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

Brown fell before the Cantabs, 21 to 6, thus throwing all the Crimson's eggs into the huge basket of the Yale bowl. Harvard won the game without difficulty, rolling up a 27-0 margin in a fast and furious scramble which saw the ball change hands 11 times on fumbles and interceptions...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: The School Year at Harvard: Concern For National Affairs | 7/2/1962 | See Source »

Like all other Giants, the Latins play in the shadow of Willie Mays, 31, still the superstar and the delight of the fans with his freewheeling base running, back-to-the-ball basket catches and powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bateador of the Giants | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...Tories have shown themselves unable to cope with "economic stagnation" at home, and are answerable for a decline in Canada's prestige abroad. Recalling that the Tories once thundered against the pre-1957 Liberal regime for putting too many of Canada's trading eggs in one basket, Pearson snapped: "The only new baskets of any significance which have been developed are Red China and Cuba." At the Gallup poll's last precampaign sounding, the Liberals (who ruled Canada for 22 years from 1935 to 1957) narrowly lead the Tories by 41% to 38% among voters who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Date in June | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Western Division, even the pros seemed a little tired of it all. Contact on the court came often and carelessly; the fouls were no longer subtle. In one game, the Celtics' defensive specialist Bill Russell seemed determined to stomp the opposition down (see cut). Pile-ups under the basket were alive with flying elbows. Tempers flared, and the Celtics' Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in.) picked up a photographer's stool to threaten the Warriors' giant Wilt Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in.). Boston's Carl Braun and Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers squared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still at It | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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