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Other American players, accustomed to the slick, fast-breaking style of play in the U.S., return home out of frustration; while improving, European basketball at best is on a level with junior-college ball in the U.S. Playing conditions, like the cramped court on the third floor of the Abbey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Anyone for Pallacanestro? | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

SOCK IT TO ME! (New Voice). The title song sounds the keynote to the frenzied demands of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, the ear-splitting hot-rods of white rhythm 'n' blues, also known as blue-eyed soul. "Sock it to me, baby, gimme, gimme, gimme," screams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 26, 1967 | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

He had to collect intelligence information from the Chinese and, as was his rule, groped for the Chinese way of doing it. The way (offering the Chinese American scientific data) was quickly found, and as quickly explained years later in his favorite brusque Americanese: "I got in contact with Chinese...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: JOHN K. FAIRBANK He Uses A Certain Perspective To Explain A Turbulent China | 2/8/1967 | See Source »

When it comes to civic action, though, the Marines insist that the "gimme and giveaway" days are gone for good. Says Colonel Holmgrain: "We will not lay so much as the first brick or provide the first pound of cement for a school or clinic until Saigon first produces a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Building a Nation Beyond the Killing | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

The Only Way. John Joseph Broderick came by his talents naturally enough. He grew up in Manhattan's East 20s, the Gashouse district, and while many of his neighbors were learning how to be thugs, Johnny, fresh from parochial school, was driving a brick truck at the age of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: World's Toughest | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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