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When Roger Fisher got wind of the ad's existence not long before page 25 of the Aug. 14 Times was scheduled to lock up, he tried to check it out. "I said, 'Hold the ad up until I can look at it,' and they [the San Francisco group which wrote and paid for the ad] thought I was working for the CIA in some connection, as a special agent," Fisher recalls...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Lawyer Has Island for A Client | 12/16/1967 | See Source »

...from an old English schoolboy's rhyme: "Alligator, crocodile, custard pie/All mixed together with a dead dog's eye/Spread it on a sandwich nice and thick/ And swallow it down with a cup of cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled in the background. 13a) cross between "textbook" and preceding word. 14) hippies with pot. 15) i.e. they're snide. 16) an awful English pudding...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Goo Goo Goo Joob | 12/14/1967 | See Source »

Harvard scored the first try (goal) early in the first half as lock Sione Tupouniua picked up a Princeton fumble and found himself in the open. Wilson followed the try with a 2-point kick, bringing the score to 5-0, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Squad Pulls Out 8-8 Tie With Princeton | 11/14/1967 | See Source »

...More Bull. Stopping for a few casual words with incoming workers as he left the mill, Held next drove to the Lock Haven airport, where he shot at Switchboard Operator Gerry Ramm four times, wounding her twice. Thinking it was a prank, the airport manager hustled Held outside without a protest. Then Held's obsession sent him to the Sugar Valley School, where three of his own children and some 500 others had been locked inside after police had notified the principal of Held's rampage. After circling the school, Held drove home and invaded the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennsylvania: The Revolt of Leo Held | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...army stopped at the Vistula River in 1944 and folded its arms while the Nazis bloodily put down the Warsaw uprising, and when Stalin refused to allow the U.S. even to airlift supplies to the dying Polish Resistance, it was obvious, says Kennan, that Stalin meant to swallow Poland, "lock, stock and barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Swing of the Pendulum | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

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