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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winner. A total of 43 escolas de samba are taking part this year, and the larger ones, like the Estacāo Primeira de Mangueira-last year's champion, named after a stop on a suburban rail line-bring 7,000 participants into their act. While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight to $3,750. The revelers arrive in psychedelic splendor, shed most of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Annual Vibrations | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...awake and having a good time. The wife of one comedian once baked him out of bed by turning up the dial on his electric blanket. Humorist Robert Benchley's secretary used to wake him up with such snappy lines as "The men have come to flood the bed for ice skating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychophysiology: Getting Along with Getting Up | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

NIXON'S campaign position was murky. Trooping through North Carolina in September, he delighted local crowds by saying that his administration would never stoop to cutting off the Federal aid. But when the national press picked up the story, a flood of protest rolled down from the North. Back in New York three days later, Nixon recanted, saying that he didn't mean to "imply that we would not use all the available tools to guarantee equal education...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Jamie, Strom, and Dick | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...title for her boss. After reading a World story on a recent German drive to shorten titles, she decided that Maria Luisa Cisneros rated just the opposite treatment and coined the name zuständ-igee Leserbriefeflutabteilungsoberleiterin. In other words: Chief supervisor of the department for answering the flood of letters to the editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...publications in the U.S. are devoted to one or another aspect of education, the country's scholars would hardly seem to be in urgent need of more. George Bonham, a New York education consultant, believes, however, that the need is greater than ever just because of the flood of journals. Last week Bonham began the publication of Change, a bimonthly magazine that is pledged to be "an irreverent foe of all that is arcane, banal and irrelevant in higher education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Education: Communication v. Confrontation | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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