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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even Agnew brays the Donkey Serenade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...opposition party banned, and he himself imprisoned for "subversion," Kenya's flamboyant, left-leaning Oginga Odinga was dismayed to find that he was not even allowed to read about the national elections. When "Double O" made a plea for newspaper privileges to President Jomo Kenyatta, his onetime pal replied: "When I was in detention, the British gave me nothing to read but the Bible. Let Odinga read that. It will do him good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Snoopy notwithstanding, the Red Baron was "a gentleman throughout" who went out of his way to give World War I adversaries an even break. So insists Manfred von Richthofen's great-niece Carmen, 24, a dark-haired charmer who, of all things, pilots a typewriter for the U.S. Army in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...tailors fitted a turn-of-the-century cape, frock coat and waistcoat for his 5,000-tulip wedding on the Johnny Carson show, Tiny Tim announced that his honeymoon would begin with "a three-day fast from S-E-X." Said Tiny: "Not even a kiss. I plan to give the Lord the first fruits of my marriage. If only more people followed the ways of St. Paul and King David." No comment from Mrs. Tim-to-be, Vicki Budinger, 17. There was even a rumor that Tim's tresses would be shorn for the event. "I hope they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama." The Hindu mantra worked no spell at all on peppery Judge Julius Hoffman, in whose federal courtroom the bushy-bearded poet was appearing as a defense witness in the Chicago conspiracy trial. When the judge protested that he did not even know what language the guru was using, Ginsberg explained that it was Sanskrit. "Well," huffed Hoffman, "we don't allow Sanskrit in federal courts." Hare, Hare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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