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Singing with Imelda. After Magsaysay's death, Marcos felt that he was in line for the vice-presidency on the Liberal ticket. It went instead to Diosdado Macapagal, who won the presidency in 1961. Embittered and disgusted with Macapagal's inability to cope with the nation's ills, Marcos in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A New Voice in Asia | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

The first half was a frustrating experience for the Crimson, who dominated the action but couldn't score. Dudley Blodget got off several shots from right wing and Jim Saltonstall showed off the trap-pivot-shoot maneuver he had patented at the center forward position, but with no success.

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Booters Smother Cornell; Robertson Sparks 3-0 Win | 10/17/1966 | See Source »

It was a remarkably successful maneuver. Storming into the city, government troops killed scores of gendarmes and drove hundreds of others into the bush. Part of the Katangese force managed to escape in a column that included 14 commandeered beer trucks and all the city's ambulances, but it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Crushing the Kats | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Other shots from the cabin window show Gemini in a successful rendezvous and docking maneuver with Agena. As the coupled craft soar toward their record apogee of 850 miles, the curvature of the earth's horizon becomes more pronounced, and the earth assumes an unmistakably globelike shape. Though the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Make Out with EVA | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

Named the Valsalva maneuver, after the 17th century Italian anatomist who described it, the trick is the same used by air travelers and skin divers to clear their ears on descent. It also has much the same result as a dose of nitroglycerin or amyl nitrite. Both drugs are rapid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart Disease: The Valsalva Maneuver | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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