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...ESTABLISHMENT. Some antic Britons wield the rapiers of satire with precision and glee as they commit merry mayhem on pompous personages and reverential attitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...large order indeed. But anyone who has contemplated the mayhem being wreaked in the name of The New Sterile Boston; or is aware of the growing tensions in the Negro districts; or is concerned with the vigor and breadth of the city's cultural life knows the magazine is important precisely because the problems are so enormous...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Forum | 11/16/1963 | See Source »

...That Made It Impossible." If there is a way, short of absolute mayhem, to defend against Staubach, nobody has found it yet. After four games, he leads the nation both in passing (55 of 77, for 742 yds. and four touchdowns) and total offense (1,024 yds. gained). Before the season opener, West Virginia Coach Gene Corum calculated that his bulky linemen were too slow to catch Staubach. So Corum split his defensive ends to keep Roger bottled up, moved his linebackers into the line. "We contained his running all right," says Corum sourly. "But of course that made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Jolly Roger | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Doctor No. This Ian Fleming thriller presents Secret Agent James Bond (Sean Connery) in all his exquisite martini-and-mayhem splendor. Maybe a bit too splendid to be true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 21, 1963 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

Various studies have portrayed the unemployed man as confused, panicky, prone to suicide, mayhem and revolt. Totalitarian regimes seem to know what unemployment can mean: they never permit...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: From the Shelf | 4/20/1963 | See Source »

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