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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which are accepted by all the major powers, may be called 'legitimate.' " The world conceived in the Congress of Vienna ultimately crumbled, but only after a century of relative peace. The Germany constructed by Bismarck blundered into a fate of blood and new division, but only after the Iron Chancellor lost power. And the failures give Kissinger another lesson to teach Americans: great states disintegrate, and so can theirs. "Nothing is more difficult for Americans to understand than the possibility of tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KISSINGER: THE USES AND LIMITS OF POWER | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Jersey store called the "Sleep Center," provides his clients with custom tape-recorded exhortations from their minister or psychiatrist. One nagged, "You hate to face reality because you think you don't measure up. It's absurd to dwell on something like this." Of course, many iron-willed morning veterans rely on nothing more complicated than putting the alarm clock across the room. But if that fails, for $384, Dine sells an ejecting bed. At the proper ungodly hour, it catapults its owner upright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychophysiology: Getting Along with Getting Up | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...powerful Nazi army captured the obscure Russian town of Mga, a railhead east of the Baltic. The Nazis thereby severed the last overland link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union, clamping an iron ring of men, armor and artillery around the beautiful city first raised by Peter the Great. Thus began the most murderous siege in modern history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Past Too Terrible To Be Buried | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Iron...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Crimson Track Team Paces to Victory Records Broken In All But One Event | 2/10/1969 | See Source »

Shaw and Scanlon shared "Iron-Man" honors with Harvard sophomore Walter Johnson and Tom Spengler, who also placed in two events. Johnson spent more than an hour shuttling between the high jump, the broad jump, and the high hurdles, earning runer-up laurels in the latter two events for his efforts. Spengler was a close third in the mile with 4:17.7 and held a stiff early pace in the two-mile before fading to 9:24.6, good for fourth place...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Crimson Track Team Paces to Victory Records Broken In All But One Event | 2/10/1969 | See Source »

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