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...cast wasn't always inspired either--too many of those turn-away-from-the-stage spots. Actors swallowed lines as though they hadn't eaten for weeks. They took unnecessarily hearty pleasure in driving home puns we wouldn't understand. They walked like cowboys if they were friars and like six-year-olds if they were pregnant women...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Measure for Measure | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

...salvage search lease with the State of Florida (in return, the state gets 25% of their take). First underwater teams located, with the aid of magnetometers, two wreck sites, marked only by piles of the original ballast stones and cannon (the wood hulls had long since been eaten away). The teams shoved the 50-lb. stones aside and cleared away loose sand with a hydraulic blaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: A Trove Come True | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...hawks, six chickens, two geese, six golden pheasants and assorted turtles and frogs, to say nothing of the family's five dogs and four horses. He used to have a fierce, 31-ft. Oriental dragon. "But the dragon ate the chameleons, and then one day he was eaten by a turtle," said the lad. "Animals do eat each other, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 3, 1967 | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...Having eaten, he crosses the Persian carpet, checks his appearance in a Louis XV looking glass, and then strolls toward his Mercedes. Looking back, he catches a glimpse of his wife, trim in her Bogner ski pants, carrying her Italian boots out to her M.G. He notices she is wearing only a cashmere sweater, and he hopes she remembers her Russian sable jacket for her trip to the ski slopes. The memory of her French perfume haunts him on his trip into town, and he toys with the idea of buying her a South African diamond as a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 27, 1967 | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...eggs at a site some 60 miles away and sat back to see who would cast the first stone. Sure enough, the eggs were promptly attacked by two mature, stone-hurling Egyptian vultures, which aimed wildly, often pausing to threaten each other. After the pair finally had cracked and eaten the eggs, an Egyptian vulture that was lower in the social pecking order approached one of the empty shells and peppered it with 30 rocks, perhaps practicing for the day when he, too, would be lucky enough to have ostrich egg for lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zoology: Birds that Throw Stones | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

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