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...audience soon caught on when one actor was forced to retrieve a liquor bot-tle, which had been used in a previous play, and pour it on the now very visible clouds of smoke. The play struggled on from that point but the fire was never fully extinguished until after the play had finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire In Loeb Theatre Makes Reality of Play | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

...ranging, eclectic mind could touch upon the Beatles or the Bomb, but for a quarter of a century he never left the Abbey of Gethsemani, except for trips to the doctor or drives with visiting friends around neighboring Kentucky hills. In fact, for almost a decade, with his ab bot's permission, he had withdrawn from much of the community life, living Thoreau-like in a small hermitage on abbey property more than a mile from the main buildings. This year he was finally granted a leave of absence from Gethsemani to study Oriental monasticism and its possible application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Death of Two Extraordinary Christians | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

With Johnson's withdrawal, the bot tom dropped out of the prediction mar ket. Mary McGrory had pointed out that the pundits were wrong about Romney, wrong about McCarthy, wrong about Bobby, wrong about Rocky. "Everything is unintelligible," she wrote, "unless one takes the position that pub lic men of both parties are meeting in cellars and plotting new ways to make idiots of reporters, particularly those who earn their bread predicting what public figures are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: LBJ., Revised Edition | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...student body presidents and editors may argue that they can appeal more effectively to the disenchanted middle class by spurning all links to the radical movement--that any connection with the New Left would turn the housewives away. Bot the fact remains that the two projects share a laudable goal--a speedy non-military solution to the war in Vietnam. They plan to apply common techniques, and they aim at a common constituency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnam: Day of Inquiry | 5/10/1967 | See Source »

...head of the scientific team analyzing the evidence, was that the moon is coated with a frothy substance that "may hide many treacherous things." The University of California's Dr. Harold Urey argued on the other hand that photographs of several craters showed "a whitish button on the bot tom," suggesting that there is "very hard material underneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mapping the Moon | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

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