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...month Castroite terrorists have been raising havoc in Peru's remote central highlands. One band of 60 men invaded two big cattle estates near Concepción, burned homes and barns, destroyed a dairy plant and dynamited two bridges nearby. Other guerrillas raided two police outposts, stole arms and ammunition, killed seven police before disappearing into the dense Andean jungles. Last week the terrorists carried their vicious little war to Lima itself. One night a small bomb exploded in Lima's fashionable Club Nacional and another erupted outside the nearby Crillon Hotel. Remarkably, only three people were hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Battling the Castroites | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...TRAIN. Prior to the Allied liberation, athletic Burt Lancaster pursues boxcars full of French art masterpieces toward the German border while Director John Frankenheimer wreaks havoc on the rails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 7, 1965 | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...long. I'm still the D.A.Rling havoc wreaker...

Author: By Felicia Lamport, | Title: Political Clinkers and Cultural Slag | 5/6/1965 | See Source »

...slice through the historic part of town. The fight-the-highway movement is not unique to Morristown. As the federal government's $41 billion interstate highway program enters its ninth year, more and more citizens are protesting that the road to faster automobile travel is not worth the havoc it often creates in the neighboring countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: Hitting the Road | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...that extremists and activists, a small minority of the student body, could capture the HCUA and use it for their own ends. If, as has been suggested, the administration had to specifically reject all HCUA proposals, they could put the administration in a very uncomfortable position and even raise havoc. A college wide election for a president would make equally little sense. We discussed this in 1962 and rejected the idea. The House, not the college as a whole, is the usual focus of most undergraduate life. In an election the average undergraduate would be voting for people outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HCUA | 1/19/1965 | See Source »

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