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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genuine color interludes, they are used imaginatively throughout. While Orson Welles, the narrator, describes Churchill's childhood, the color camera follows a small boy through Blenheim Castle; as he describes Churchill's school days, the screen fills not with stilted Dauguerrotypes but with color shots of Harrow boys as they are today, unchanged from 75 years ago. When Churchill is summoned by the King to form a government in 1940, a Rolls-Royce drives up to Buckingham Palace in another color scene. Even though newsreel clip of the real thing. Churchill himself, as senting what eyewitnesses saw than would...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: The Finest Hours | 12/1/1964 | See Source »

...bius loop can be made by cutting a harrow strip of paper and gluing its ends together after giving the strip a half-turn. The loop that results has peculiar qualities. Most important, though the paper it is made of has two sides, the loop itself has only one surface. This can be proved by drawing a pencil line down the middle of the strip. The pencil line covers both sides of the paper and returns to the starting point without the strip's being turned over. When cut along the pencil line, the paper forms not two loops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Making Resistors with Math | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...from spoiled child to charismatic leader, from model English gentleman to Oriental father figure. Born in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, he belonged to a wealthy, Westernized family of the highest Brahmin class. When he was 15, the family sailed for England and the boy was entered at Harrow, where, as he put it, "I was never an exact fit." He moved on to Cambridge and two years of law studies at London's Inner Temple. He also had the money and appetite for fashionable parties in the West End, and could down a magnum of champagne without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Man of East & West | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

None of this means that "learn, learn, learn" is about to supplant "fight, fight, fight" on U.S. campuses. From Anchors Aweigh to All Hail Alaska, the college song is still uniquely American. Britons save their tears for school songs like Harrow's Forty Years On. Oxbridge has s no official songs whatever. Germans I and Frenchmen sing of beer and wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Hail to Thee-- Er ... Da Di Da | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...sort that would take potshots at hares from the drawing-room window. At first young Alec seemed to take after him. Eton contemporaries still remember Alec Home's finest hour, in the big cricket match of 1922, when he scored 66 runs on a sticky wicket against Harrow. In those days, Author and Fellow Etonian Cyril Connolly wrote, Britain's new Prime Minister "was the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Winner | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

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