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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adventure, he did away with "the first of the great Negro criminals" who used voodoo the better to serve Marxism. On another occasion, he liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried to explode an A-bomb in Fort Knox in order to seize, naturally, all the U.S. gold; Goldfinger was so deeply committed to the gold standard that he could only make love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: 007 v. SMERSH | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

When spacecraft are fired from Cape Canaveral, recovery of the segment that returns to earth often becomes a full-dress Navy spectacular. Destroyers, carriers, airplanes and helicopters scout hundreds of miles of ocean to pull an encapsuled astronaut out of the drink or save a set of valuable instruments. But such shows are so costly that they are attempted only when the cargo that comes back from space is especially important. Most of the Cape's missiles and satellites deliver all their information by radio and are abandoned when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Recovery at White Sands | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...looked like the whole ocean was coming up in slow motion when he came out of the water. Every time he jumped and went back in. it was like bombs hitting the water." On an annual fishing trip to Cape Hatteras. N.C.. Gary Stukes, 37, a sales engineer from Morristown. N.J., had hooked into an angler's dream: a huge blue marlin with a bill like a baseball bat and a temperament to match. In the first few seconds the leaping, head-shaking fish ripped off 400 yds. of 130-lb. test line; it took another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Nothing in Washington's International Jazz Festival was quite so impressive as the sight and sound of an ample woman swathed in yellow chiffon walking down the aisle, borrowing hats, a mink cape and a couple of purses, while singing Packin' Up (for a trip to the "Great Beyond"). Singer Marion Williams was remarkable not only for her display of a gold tooth embellished with a star, but also for her voice-supple, easy-ranging and capable of lyric flights and hallelujah shouts of shattering force. Singer Williams and the other members of her Stars of Faith group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Gospelers | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Among the sports enthusiasts who weathered the chilling air were a "fathers-daughters vs. sons" ball game contingent and a group which managed to talk the tennis pro into letting them use the still damp clay courts. Others either boarded buses for tours of Cape Ann, homes and gardens, the Manchester harbor, or else took a trip to Singing Beach, where there was "no swimming, but a chance to see the beach, walk in your bare tootsies and let the sand squeeze through your toes...

Author: By Arthur G. Sachs, | Title: RAIN AND COOLNESS FAIL TO MAR '37's DAY AT ESSEX | 6/13/1962 | See Source »

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