Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME deserves a great big pat on the back for its Chessman cover story. This was objective reporting at its finest. No one who reads it need now believe that California is gassing Chessman for something he wrote, and not once was he referred to as "convict-author...
...share. The Israelis are happy to sell out, and often wind up with a brokerage fee or a managerial contract. Liberia is employing Israeli construction firms on its new $3,500,000 Ducor Palace Hotel, which will be West Africa's finest. Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, who proudly claims some Jewish blood from a chance encounter centuries ago between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, has hired Israeli engineers to build 77 miles of mountain road, and is thinking of getting Israelis to convert his slum-ridden capital, Addis Ababa, into a modern city. Israeli technicians...
...diving has quality to match quantity. At Malta last year, the world's spearfishing championship (done with held breath alone) was won by California's rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Terry Lentz, 22, who landed 15 fish weighing 106 Ibs. One of the finest free divers in the world is Security Analyst Peter Gimbel, 32, husky, Yale-bred scion of the department-store family. As a boy, Gimbel sat on the bottom of his parents' pool with a five-gallon can over his head, gulping air from a garden hose. He grew up to become...
...Loaded with fast-skating Canadians, the University of Denver won the 13th N.C.A.A. hockey championship with a 5-3 defeat of Michigan Tech, another Canadian-packed team, was pronounced the finest college team in history by experts at rinkside in Boston...
Ikiru (Japanese). A hard-eyed, nail-by-nail examination of a common man's Calvary, and perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, Japan's most gifted moviemaker...