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During the lively late show at London's newest nightclub, underdressed chorus girls grind in the naughtiest Memphis manner while patrons dine on smoked salmon and chicken à la Maryland. Called "Showboat" and located in the Strand, the club is so popular that it is booked solid on weekends through New Year's. The most extraordinary fact about it, however, is its owner: London's J. Lyons & Co., Ltd., known to Britons for years as the conservative proprietor of 170 staid, gold-and-white-fronted teahouses scattered through their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: From Tea to Tease | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...remarkable turnabout in the war is the result of one of the swiftest, biggest military buildups in the history of warfare. Everywhere today South Viet Nam bustles with the U.S. presence. Bulldozers by the hundreds carve sandy shore into vast plateaus for tent cities and airstrips. Howitzers and trucks grind through the once-empty green highlands. Wave upon wave of combat-booted Americans-lean, laconic and looking for a fight-pour ashore from armadas of troopships. Day and night, screaming jets and prowling helicopters seek out the enemy from their swampy strongholds in southernmost Camau all the way north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Congressmen offered the most pungent remarks. Sen. Dirksen said the demonstrations were "enough to make any person loyal to this country weep." Mississippi's Sen. Stennis urged the administration to "immediately move to jerk this movement up by the roots and grind it to bite." Sen. Kuchel said students who burned their draft cards were "sowing the seeds of treason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Red Scare | 10/21/1965 | See Source »

Cornell took over on their own 20, and moved two yards in three plays. Joe Homics punted to the Crimson 43. Harvard began to grind out yardages, the big play being an 18-yard pass from McCluskey to Bobby Leo. But with a first down on the Cornell 20, Harvard's drive fizzled. After three unsuccessful running plays, Dullea kicked his field goal, giving the Crimson a 3-0 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Eleven Sputters to 3-3 Tie; Running Attack Fails Against Cornell | 10/18/1965 | See Source »

...with no varsity game scheduled for this weekend, used a flashy backfield studded with varsity second-stringers to grind out a steady ground attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Potent BC Stuns J.V. Footballers | 10/16/1965 | See Source »

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