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Levin and Jarvis played nearly flawless tennis against their highly-rated opponents. By the end of the match, Curry and Powell had become frustrated to the point of disbelief. The lopsided win helped to assuage Levin's singles loss to Curry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen, Crew Win; Cornell Nips Stickmen | 4/22/1968 | See Source »

...copulation explosion, Tyson has never gone more than 17 hours without committing adultery. His wife is Actress Caterina Largo, who possesses, among other things, "a behind stuffed with the golden fleece of erotic dreams for the Mediterranean peoples," and shoulders so flawless that they "reminded Swedish men of winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beverly Hills Baroque | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...when Berlin, Cuba and Laos loomed as the most menacing trouble spots for the U.S., Galbraith was counseling against the dispatch of even a few American combat troops to South Viet Nam. "A few," he advised Kennedy in 1962, "will mean more and more and more." His forecast proved flawless. From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew to more than 16,000 under Kennedy and half a million under Lyndon Johnson today. The war that they are fighting, cries Galbraith, is "perhaps the worst miscalculation in our history," and he sees the Viet Cong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Great Mogul | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

TCHAIKOVSKY: QUEEN OF SPADES (4 LPs; Melodiya/Angel). Because of the form's grandeur of aspiration and complexity of means, it is difficult to find a trivial opera. Yet Tchaikovsky managed to write a nearly flawless bit of trivia when he sat down to put silly music to a silly libretto about a fateful faro game and an old countess who is scared to death. That's right, scared to death by a mad gambler named Herman. In this recording, the role of the Countess is fairly well sung by Mezzo-Soprano Valentina Levko, and Herman is less well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jan. 19, 1968 | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...penalty-killers Chip Otness and Don Grimble, along with defensemen Ben Smith and Bob Carr, ran out the two minutes with a flawless display of passing and craft...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Harvard Hockey Team Downs Clarkson, 8-3 | 1/15/1968 | See Source »

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