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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could push his union reform through Parliament only at the risk of blowing apart the party. At week's end, as Wilson surveyed the extent of election losses that left Labor controlling only 57 of the 542 boroughs in Britain, he could perhaps take consolation from the fact that in medical history there has been no known case of a fatal bite by dentures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Edentulous and the Myopic | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...most Americans to keep the events in perspective. Bewildered citizens understandably forget that most of the nation's 6,700,000 collegians are still quietly studying for final exams. The U.S. has 2,500 colleges and universities; this year, scarcely two dozen have been seriously disrupted. The fact that each incident has a particular context is also frequently overlooked. Because universities differ so greatly, condemnation of all "protest" is not very helpful without an analysis of specifics at each campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Political University | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...tabloid newspaper. It prints no racy photographs -in fact, it prints no photographs at all. Its gourmet column dwells on such matters as the proper preparation of eel. Its travel stories tell how to avoid the plague of Americans in Paris. Its news stories read more like scholarly essays or finicky editorials, reflecting the attitude of its writing staff of 110, three-quarters of whom hold a Ph.D., law, or master's degree in literature or political science. There is scarcely any advertising; yet the paper's success seems virtually assured. Perhaps most unusual of all, the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Inside France | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...opera, not even backstage, nor are they likely to show up at a restaurant or on the crosstown bus. The idea is not to shock the general public but to dress with taste among friends -at intime dinners and small cocktail parties-in clothes that do not fudge the fact that the wearer is a woman, but leave a certain something to the imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Fashion: The Way of All Flesh | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...This week it puts on view 700 charming Mexican folk toys and figurines, festival masks and terra-cotta ewers that reflect Rockefeller's continuing interest and many southward junkets. The exhibit's gaiety derives in part, as Rockefeller notes in the catalogue's introduction, from the fact that Mexican folk art is "an ongoing tradition, bound up with everyday life and festivals, producing a pervasive, ever-present excitement for the eye and mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pervasive Excitement for the Eye and Mind | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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