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Although Indians and Eskimos stand to suffer greatly from the fires, authorities suspect-but have not proved-that natives started a few of the blazes. The Government pays $46 to $65 a day for firefighters. A few weeks of these wages can mean nearly a year's living for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: The Fire War | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

SWORD LINE can carry the weight and win, PRINCESS VAL is ridden by hot apprentice R. Casey, LIGHTNING STORM won at 130-1.

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Today's Bets At Suffolk Downs | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

The best songs are "Lazy Summer" and "One Born Every Minute" (two very groovy tunes with lots of chimes, kazoos, concertinas, and other new sounds), "God" (an old Lampoon song about who is responsible for poverty, earthquakes, and the striking of such instruments of Fate as lightning), "The Surprising Sheep...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The Lampoon | 6/9/1969 | See Source »

Viet Nam is another Hoppe target. He writes that "in the 43rd year of our lightning campaign to wipe the dread Viet-Narian guerrillas out of West Vhtnnng," there was movement in Paris. After sitting at the same peace table with him for ten years, the lady representative of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnist: Reverse Images | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Take, for example, the last couple of reels of a minor Ford film, Prisoner of Shark Island (1936). Dr. Mudd, unjustly imprisoned on an American Devil's Island, is recruited to stop a Yellow Fever epidemic. He must rally the panic-stricken soldiers, who are shown to us initially in...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: John Ford Retrospective | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

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