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...meter butterfly (55.7 sec.) and the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 5.7 sec.), needs only to pare a total of seven seconds off his best times to set records in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle and the 200-meter individual medley (breast stroke, backstroke and crawl). At last year's Pan American games in Winnipeg, he won five gold medals. The only way anybody is likely to keep his score that low in next fall's Mexico City Olympics is by scheduling events simultaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming: Water Baby to Beat | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...must first write a petition in it. One of the biggest hits of the Prague theater season, The Labyrinth by Ladislav Smoček, shows men imprisoned in a maze of park pathways and hedges, which represent bureaucracy. While an amused keeper watches with his vicious dog, they crawl piteously about, toss out the bones of their dead comrades and conduct absurd conversations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Into Unexplored Terrain | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...sole concession to flamboyance is a reconstruction of Dali's ivy-twined Rainy Taxi, from the 1938 exposition, faithfully copied right down to the snails that crawl on the faces of the sopping, green-lit mannequins inside. Otherwise, dulcet decorum is preserved because, as former Sarah Lawrence Professor Rubin puts it: "While the Dadaists use the term antiart to deny modern art, in retrospect their work takes its place in that tradition, enriching more than denying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: The Hobbyhorse Rides Again | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...establish a profit-sharing plan. Moreover, the Union Leader does a commendable job of reporting state politics and carries as much national and international news as most papers its size. But all too often news stories turn out to be only slightly disguised Loeb opinions. ASKS U.S. BELLY CRAWL bawled the banner headline over a story about Senator Mike Mansfield urging the U.S. to confess that the Pueblo was in North Korean waters if the admission would bring about the release of the crew. Not long ago, the Union Leader happily featured a Manchester gravestone dealer who had placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: The Eagle & the Chickens | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...girls a generation ago, the most hoped-for present at the top of Santa's bag was a doll. It still is. But nowadays, helped by batteries, every Jack and Jill must be capable of doing its own thing. "Baby Crawl-Along" lives up to her name, scoots across the floor on hands and knees. No sooner does "Tubsy" touch the bath water than she starts splashing. Tubsy is an angel compared with "Li'l Miss Fussy"; she dampens her diapers, then throws a tantrum, crying and kicking until she has been changed. "Baby's Hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas: Off the Track and into the Slot | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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