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...France is both circuitous and cruel. Once he has paid the local smuggling agent for his passage, the peasant is sent to a mountain hideout near the Spanish border, where he joins a group of 15 or 20 others and is turned over to a guide. Traveling for two frigid nights, they scramble over secret mountain trails into Spain, carrying their belongings with them. A vegetable truck drives them some 300 miles to an isolated ranch in the Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there, it is a four-night trek down the Pyrenees into the flatlands of southern France, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: The Hard Way to France | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

Outside Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel last week, the temperature was a frigid 26°, but in the grand ballroom the atmosphere of Carrier Corp.'s 50th anniversary stockholders' meeting was glowingly warm. President William Bynum, 62, announced that sales in fiscal 1964 jumped 9%, to $325 million. Directors recently voted a 20% dividend raise, and shareholders happily approved a three-for-two stock split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: Warm News at Carrier | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...witch, every man's dream of coy seductiveness. Men fight over her. Fighting's another basic basic. So how do we rescue Nina from her compulsions? Well, there's this dream man, a rich American, and it all comes out O.K. because his wife is frigid anyway, and Nina . . . Short sentences, Gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: See Gene Run | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...George Van Lengen, a graduate of Harvard Law School; and sergeant-at-arms to a former New York City policeman and military horo from Westchester, the province of one of the anti-Wagner coalition's main supporters James Luddy. The motive behind such a letter, with its frigid, openly hostile tone, could only be anger, which seems peculiar from a man who professed indifference to the Albany out-come...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Bobby Kennedy's New York | 2/17/1965 | See Source »

...frigid Polar Bears, who have been walloped by Brown 11-1 and Northeastern 13-1, will be the Crimson's easiest opponents of the year. Harvard lost 6-2 to Northeastern Wednesday in a relative squeaker, so if comparative scores mean anything, the Crimson can't miss...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Winless Sextet Tackles Weaker Prey: Bowdoin | 12/5/1964 | See Source »

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