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...bear," says the encyclopedia, "is relatively slow on its feet and has little coordination when running at top speed...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Harvard Favored to Defeat Brown In Ivy League Tennis Match Today; Should Sweep Weak Bruins | 4/23/1963 | See Source »

...Encyclopedia of Communism (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). The last in a series of four programs on the ideology and practice of Communism, with Chet Huntley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 12, 1963 | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...future scientific team tomfoolery, might I suggest book burning? Records established in this test of intellect are: encyclopedia ten minutes (Britannica, Volume P), the Talmud twelve minutes, Winnie the Pooh five minutes. Prevalent textbooks may serve as igniters. Paperbacks are hardly sporting. ELIZABETH TAYLOR American Embassy Lima, Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 1963 | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...encyclopedia tells us that Lake Mead, behind Hoover Dam, is the largest man-made lake in the world, but we know perfectly well that when we trudge to Humanities 119 tomorrow morning, we will have to ford a much more forbidding body of water--the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake, which forms at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Broadway whenever Cambridge is visited by a heavy snow. This inland sea (one of several in the area: the Freedom Square Ice Floe is almost as impressive) is every bit as man-made as the one in Arizona-Nevada, for it results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gardy Loo! | 3/4/1963 | See Source »

...which has sold 1,300,000 copies since its publication in 1952. Her column is published in 100 newspapers in the U.S., Canada and Latin America, has an audience of more than 40 million; and she is the official etiquette consultant for outfits ranging from the World Book Encyclopedia to the U.S. State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners: The Guider | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

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