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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addition and subtraction were perhaps no more difficult than they were for the Romans, who could easily take XXXIX from CIV, but multiplication and division often unhinged the juvenile mind. Sample: if 23 cricket bats cost ?25 11s. 9d., how much does one cricket bat cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Pound Foolish | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...always ready to eat," he says. "Chinatown was wonderful: an egg roll and two bowls of chow fan for 40?. A little concentrated on the calories, perhaps." Precociously peripatetic at 15, Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate to think what we ate. Stews and sourdough bread, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Fat of the Land | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

Your main article under "The Nation" in the Dec. 19 issue has left me quite appalled. You note random thoughts of the President-elect in regard to the mistakes made by his predecessors. I feel that I as the daughter of Mr. William H. Woodin must go to bat for a great American who gave his life for his country and now cannot speak for himself. The events and history of the late 1920s and of the early 1930s prove, I am sure, the worthiness of the former Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin. Furthermore, Mr. Roosevelt had known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...Island Residents. Indigenas who endure the system without protest live peacefully enough. For those who rebel there is the palmatória-a stout, flat bat with holes in it. A dozen sharp blows of the palmatória on the open palm leave welts and blisters that last for weeks. Persistent troublemakers disappear quietly to the labor camps of São Tomé, Portugal's little island prison in the Gulf of Guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portuguese Africa: The Sleeper | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Freshman Swimming; Freshman Intramural Dorm Chairman; Kirkland House Committee '59-'60 (Chairman '60-'61); House Swimming, Tennis, Touch Football; Bat Club; D.E. Club; Hasty Pudding; Junior Usher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for Senior Class Marshal | 12/3/1960 | See Source »

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