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...Gaulle, he said, "could be this evening, in six months' time, or in one year. Or it could be in five years, since that, according to the constitution, is when the mandate entrusted to me expires. And if I wanted to make some people laugh, or others groan, I could say that I might equally well last another ten or 15 years." While the laughter was still subsiding, the general added, in perhaps the most realistic remark of the entire conference: "Frankly, I do not think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Surpassing Himself | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...name suggests, Sim One is the first in what is expected to be a long line of medical robots. U.S.C.'s Dr. Stephen Abrahamson, who developed the robot with colleague Dr. J. S. Denson, expects that future generations will bleed and sweat, perhaps even groan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anesthesiology: Robot of Life & Death | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...Million Years B.C. is a gaudier and bawdier copy of a prehistoric (1940) Hollywood epic about life at the yawn of prehistoric mankind. This time it is in color by DeLuxe, but once again, the sound track consists of groan-up dialogue that could have been prerecorded at a pet shop. Just as in the original, the special-effects man creates a table-top monster rally that comes to a clumsy climax in a duel between a triceratops and an allosaurus-the least exciting rematch since the second Clay-Liston fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Yawn of Mankind | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...Freedman had a 2-point reversal and also half of a "crucifix." With his left leg wrapped around Buttrill's left leg, Freedman reached across Buttrill to grab his right leg with his hands. He then rocked back, splitting Buttrill's legs wide apart hard enough to make him groan...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Freedman Pin Gives Harvard Win | 2/27/1967 | See Source »

...then, amid the groan of earth-moving machines, police called for silence. Then during the eerie, deathly lull, everyone listened for the faint whimper of a trapped child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Murderous Mountain | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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