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Word: helmets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help may be on the way. One observer was startled yesterday when he first walked into the Cage, and looked in on a bunting session -- and there without a helmet or pads was Vic Gatto...

Author: By James R. Beniger and Richard D. Paisner, S | Title: A Circus in Carey Cage? No, Early Spring Baseball | 3/29/1967 | See Source »

...double-breasted pinstripe jackets. At Dartmouth, the particular "drinking uni" (for uniform) at the moment is the "blow-lunch look" (so called, one student explains, because "when you look at one of those ties you want to blow your lunch") topped off with a Red Baron Flying Ace helmet, complete with ear flaps and shrapnel holes. At Harvard, the grapevine passes the word around within hours whenever Secondhand Deal er Max Keezer or "Morgie's" (Goodwill Industry's Morgan Memorial) gets in any old taxi-driver hats or brownand-white shoes, and some Harvards are even beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: The Follies That Come with Spring | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...first three U.S. astronauts to die on duty were motionless and earth-bound when they were killed last week. With helmet faceplates closed and suits pressurized, they reclined in a row on padded couches in their cylindrical Apollo capsule, running through the countdown of a simulated launch, a routine but rigorous rehearsal for the real thing. They had been there 5 hrs. 31 min. when fire exploded in the cabin. Within seconds, Lieut. Colonel Virgil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: To Strive, To Seek, To Find, And Not To Yield . . . | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...five, Georgia four. "We've had people mistaken for everything from birds to porcupines," complained Michigan's conservation director, and a Texas wildlife official warned: "Sure, it's fun to get out in the woods. But it's also a good idea to wear a helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: The Blood Sport | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Brows free rein. They include an ex-nightclub comedian, a onetime disk jockey who likes to blow on trumpet mouthpieces while he creates, and an astrologer who owns the largest collection of Batman comic books in Ohio; their office decor ranges from a sculptured bust with a leather flying helmet on it to a tape recorder on which the group listens to old Fibber McGee & Molly radio programs for inspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Hearts & Darts For Far-Aparts | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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