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...Hungarian Horror Our Numbers column [Jan. 30] included an item on a California student who set a new record for solving the Rubik's Cube puzzle: only 11.13 sec. The cube became wildly popular in the early 1980s. Here's an excerpt from our first report on the phenomenon [March...
...Bringing Down the House When soprano Birgit Nilsson, who died in January [MILESTONES, Jan. 23], made her long-awaited debut at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, TIME was there to cover her performance. Here is an excerpt from our report...
...Excerpts from President Eisenhower’s farewell address begin and punctuate the film, but one excerpt from that speech serves as the film’s leitmotif: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist...
...complete justice for all people and an extraordinary leader. Americans observe a national holiday in his honor. It grieves me deeply, therefore, that you felt it necessary to print references to his extramarital affairs, which can only diminish his stature. I am not disputing the information in the excerpt. I am only lamenting the fact that so many people seem to find it necessary to expose the clay feet of our heroes. (THE REV.) LOUIS GERHARDT Twenty-nine Palms, Calif...
...John Updike and even Elmer the Custodian. Past Presidents and Editors of the Yearbook include names such as George Feeney, Edward Kenyon, Roxane Harvey, Lee Smith, and Ken Meister—significant in their own right but not particularly etched in Harvard lore,” an excerpt from the yearbook’s website reads...