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Until that moment, Eliot's performance was noteworthy for two defensive stands after Elephant backs fumbled first on their five, in the second quarter. But with four seconds to play, quarterback Bunk Reed lofted a 40-yard spiral that his favorite target, end Joe Pawlak, hauled in as he crossed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Champs Defeat Leverett, 13-6; Dunster, Eliot Down Yale Opponents | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

Adventure was Tom Sawyer-and every adventurer has in him a bit of the runaway boy. Adventure was "Bigfoot" Wallace, the Texas ranger who went East "to see how people managed to live without the excitement of an occasional Indian fight, or a scrimmage with the Mexicans, or even a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ADVENTURE & THE AMERICAN INDIVIDUALIST | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

Did she feel American foreign policy since the war has been a series of blunders, a view shared by a number of her countrymen? "Oh, dear me, no," she replied, "I think you've done splendidly. Never has an elephant stepped into a bath with so many ducklings and come...

Author: By Darcy Pinkerton, | Title: Lady Jackson | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

For the Rhodesian, there is much at stake. Few communities in the world can match the sun-drenched affluence that Rhodesia's hardy settlers have achieved for themselves. Lions still command the distant escarpments, and elephants, baboons and rhinos forage in the valleys of rivers bulging with hippos. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: We Want Our Country | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

The Pioneer Column. Rhodes got to him in 1888. In return for a promise to keep all other white marauders out of Zambesia, the King affixed his official elephant seal to a document awarding Rhodes's British South Africa Co. the right to dig for gold. Rhodes rushed off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: We Want Our Country | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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