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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constant horror. Christened in 1928 as the "Gateway to the South," it swayed sickeningly to every vagrant breeze - so much so that Point Pleas ant Mayor D. B. Morgan banned its use during parades. Last week, under the bumper-to-bumper weight of cars, gravel trucks, and semitrailers, the "Silver Bridge" collapsed, carrying perhaps as many as 100 people to their deaths in the murky, near-freezing Ohio River waters 80 ft. below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Collapse of the Silver Bridge | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...Harvard's poor play was all to Cornell's credit. Pete Tufford, centering the all-junior line, as good a forward as there is in the East, and the five sophomore forwards from Ontario--all of whom scored last night--make Cornell's fast-breaking attack a constant threat...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Cornell Whitewashes Hockeymen, 9-0 | 12/19/1967 | See Source »

...month. It could draft those born after the 15th of every month. Or they could fill each month's draft quota with men born only in that month, probably a more inequitable system since monthly calls vary by as much as 10,000. This system can be varied infinitely. Constant changes, however, are considered too administratively cumbersome to be workable...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: The Draft: What To Expect | 12/19/1967 | See Source »

...found hanged by his belt after he begged to be moved from his cell for fear of being killed; a third inmate was allegedly beaten to death. The stories of two former inmates, reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, suggested that murder was merely the end result of the constant brutality and venality that prevailed in the jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: Cook County Horrors | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...logic of time and continuity, as in all his films. Only here there are horrors leaping across time. Men killed wantonly and gorily do not disappear from the film; they go on. But they are painted from head to toe in one of several bright colors to stand as constant reminders of the un-live state that war has sent them...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: How I Won the War | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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