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...thus far. General Motors is down 1% from last year in spite of such hot numbers as the Pontiac Tempest. Smaller American Motors is up 5.5% on the strength of its sporty Javelin but, while this is pleasing to American, it amounts to a mere drop in the industry bucket. Overall industry sales are down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Happy Exception at Chrysler | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

With 16 minutes left, and Harvard trailing 52-28, Kanuth his a twisting layup. Captain Bob Beller followed with a bucket off the press and then Gallagher dropped in a short jumper. The teams traded baskets for the next three minutes before Harvard put on a fantastic, pressing surge...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Northeastern Five Wins, 62-57, As Crimson Rally Barely Fails | 12/19/1967 | See Source »

Somehow the Terriers got the ball down to Hayes again, and the slick southpaw sliced in for another bucket at the two-second mark. A last gasp desperation hook by Grate fell short...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Basketball Team Blows 14-Point Lead, Drops Season's Opener to B.U., 78-77 | 12/4/1967 | See Source »

...team of amateur diggers sifted through every bucket of excavated earth, collecting more than 40 cartons of potsherds. As each block was recovered, its precise location was noted on a chart so that archaeologists could later determine exactly where the monument stood and how it fell. Eventually, the young archaeologists found and excavated 58 large blocks, which they then correctly reassembled into a section of the ancient monument on an undisturbed area of the basement floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Under the Haberdashery By the City Gate | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...bucket, Nantucket. This innocent rhyme was instantly followed by innumerable sub-wits who varied the towns (Pawtucket, Manhasset), or thought that they could find a better last line. It is probably one or another coarse version of this that most lim erick fanciers remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There Was A Young Man of ... | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

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