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Word: final (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 12, 1969 | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Winners of golf's "big four" tournaments (Tony Jacklin, British Open; George Archer, Masters; Orville Moody, U.S. Open; and Ray Floyd, P.G.A.) compete at Firestone Country Club, Akron. Final round Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 5, 1969 | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...long ago, such advice might have been swiftly heeded. But with U.S. troops beginning to withdraw, American influence in Saigon is waning and bound to decline further. Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford wrote recently in Foreign Affairs quarterly that Viet Nam's "political realities are, in the final analysis, both beyond our control and beyond our ken." In putting together his new government, Thieu could prove that point emphatically. His decisions might not only be beyond the control or comprehension of the U.S. but might also prove distasteful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Limiting the Leadership | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...preparing to putt. The interlopers were quickly hustled off. "The man who threw the Coke called me a racist," Player later complained. "Just because you're from South Africa, it doesn't mean you're a racist." After the tournament, Player admitted that all through the final round he had been nervously waiting for more trouble. "It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop." It never did. An increased force of police and security guards was finally able to restore tranquility to the greens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Confidence Man | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...King Jr. is out of date), the show will consist of the same tape that CBS decided "would be considered irreverent and offensive by a large segment of our audience" during the week of the Eisenhower funeral. CBS specifically cited a parody sermonette by Religion Satirist David Steinberg (his final line: "Let's put Christ back into Christmas and 'ch' back into Chanukah"). But more likely the network objected to the show's running gags about John Pastore, the influential chairman and Mrs. Grundy of the Senate Communications Subcommittee. For example, Guest Dan Rowan of Laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Unsinkable Tom Smothers | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

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