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...never known seaweed. Those to the east look out over an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones that Jack Nicklaus has described as "more fun to play than any course I know." Farther to the east stands Mauna Kea itself, whose 13,825-ft. snow-capped crest makes it the tallest island mountain in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Builder's Paradise | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Girls & Sewing Machines. It is Vientiane's unique charm to be riding the crest of an economic boomlet as political disaster perpetually surrounds it. Indian and Chinese shops are stocked with Scotch whisky, Benares silks, Dior perfumes and Max Factor cosmetics. But under it all lurks the perennial mood of bo peng nhan (it doesn't matter), scrofulous pi-dogs howl their way past open drains, and the sidewalks under the glittering shop windows are perilous with potholes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: The Silent Sideshow | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...strong Williams lacrosse team, riding on the crest of a 19-2 win over RPI last Saturday, takes on the Crimson ten at the Business School field this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Face Williams Team In Home Tilt | 4/27/1965 | See Source »

...indicted by a federal grand jury for making an illegal phone call and transporting stolen goods across state lines. As Government agents described events, Mayfield made a telephone call- that illegal call- to an acquaintance employed by Colgate-Palmolive, maker of Colgate toothpaste and Cue, strong competitors of Crest. He offered to sell the marketing plans to Colgate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Ethics: The Crestfallen Spy | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...specified men's room at New York City's Kennedy International Airport. There they entered adjoining cubicles and Mayfield, shrewdly calculating how to delay any possible pursuit by the Colgate man, demanded that he remove his trousers and hand them over. Mayfield then handed over the Crest plan, in return received $20,000-in marked bills. As he rushed out, he was arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, Mayfield could get up to ten years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Ethics: The Crestfallen Spy | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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