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While the political agitators in the cities railed against South Viet Nam's government and the U.S. presence, the allies went on with the grim and grinding task of preserving the nation on the battlefields. For six days the reconnaissance helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division (airmobile) hummed over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Back to the Valley of Death | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

Death & the Elephant. Based on a 19th century lottery to boost attendance at the Rio zoo, the animal game is no ordinary numbers racket. It starts off with 25 animals, each of which is assigned four consecutive numbers (from 01-04 for the ostrich to 97-00 for the cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Animal Game | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

Inherently superstitious, Brazilians find jogo simply fascinating. They can find portents of the winning numbers in dreams, cloud formations and any number of symbolic events. The elephant has come to be associated with death, and whenever there is a fatal traffic accident involving a car with one of the elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Animal Game | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

Harvard baseball is as unpredictable as--what? Pick your simile. As unpredictable as the spring weather? As a baseball? As a charging rogue elephant? As a charging rogue flea?

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unpredictable Varsity Nine Faces Season With Good Chance to Improve on '65 Mark | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

Music fills the evening, and the instruments have such wondrous personalities that they sometimes threaten to upstage the cast. Among those played are the mbira, timbila, kalimba, guitar-lute, Lozi drums, tampura drone, bamboo pipe, Japanese koto zither, and double respiratory linguaphone. These vary in appearance from hollowed-out Halloween...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jumpin' Jo'burg | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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