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Word: continentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's top-responsibility middle-ager might say with Shakespeare's Henry V at dawn of the Battle of Agincourt: "The day, my friends, and all things wait for me." Whether the hand holds the scalpel (Dr. Michael DeBakey, 57) or the baton (Leonard Bernstein, 48), it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demography: The Command Generation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

It was hardly the Mayflower; yet in front of Phillip's molting, motley crew stretched a continent as vast and varied as the United States, its interior a "ghastly blank" of alkaline deserts, its outer rim a sun-bleached jawbone of barrier reefs and ragged mountains. Last week, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Filling in the Ghastly Blank | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Wallabies & Fossickers. In conducting the continent's most accurate head count since Phillip's day, Prime Minister Harold Holt sent 18,500 census enumerators into the cities, suburbs and outback to track down some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Filling in the Ghastly Blank | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking is among the top ten on record charts in Mexico City, Rome, Bonn and Geneva. Batoman is wowing them on TV in Tokyo and playing in Buenos Aires and London as well. Bonanza is big not only in Africa but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN WAY | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Married. Brigitte Bardot, 31, prototype cat for Europe's sex kittens; and Gunter Sachs von Opel, 33, heir to a West German ball-bearing fortune and one of the Continent's best-known hedonists; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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