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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pack of yippies unleashed a waggish demonstration in Tokyo last week. Howling for an increase in government-regulated imports of dog food, an estimated 1,500 dogs paraded, more or less under their owners' control, through central Tokyo to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Both owners and owned carried signs growling slogans such as: "Miserable Dogs" and "Fellow Doggies, Let's Bite Off More Allocations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Bark-In | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

These malfunctions are possible: Your parachute might never have left its pack. It might be a "streamer," which means it's out there, but just not filling with air. It might have holes in it. It might have one of its lines looped over the top, cutting the bowl in half, creating two much-less-effective bowls...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...grew into a firm that now produces more than 7,000,000 cards a day, with an estimated annual sale of $200 million. Died. Edward R. Burke, 87, Democratic Senator from Nebraska from 1935-41, who started as a New Dealer, but soon opposed F.D.R.'s attempts to pack the Supreme Court, levy a progressive income tax, and protect labor unions, thus losing his party's nomination in 1940; in Kensington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 15, 1968 | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...their two other matches, Hedevar was stabled, and Dr. Fager whipped Damascus handily. Dr. Pager's other defeat was in last year's Jersey Derby, which he won by 61 lengths only to be dis qualified because Jockey Manuel Ycaza permitted him to cut across the pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The Doctor Is the Best | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...byword in the '20s, and he was already a made man by the time the other show came in. Earlier, with Charlie Bickford, just before Broadway, he played a minor part in Glory Hallelujah, opening the show with the only line out of it anyone ever remembered: "Pack of Camels," said Tracy-and what was memorable about that I can't myself conjecture, but many people did remember it and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1968 | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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