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Word: packs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Junior midfielder Charley Ames started things off with a hard-fought score six minutes into the third quarter. He took a pass at midfield from Dan Kopanz-- playing for the first time this year -- forged his way through a pack of Indians in front of the goal and slammed in the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Whip Indians, Ending Ivy Losing Streak | 5/8/1967 | See Source »

Looking for a better life, thousands of peasants pack up every month and head for the big cities, where they find only deeper poverty and despair. In the Northeast's bustling port of Recife, 40% of the city's 1,000,000 people live in squalid, malodorous mocambos (shanties) strung out along the city's Ca-piberibe River. There is no fresh water, sanitation or electric light, and crime and disease are as oppressive as the millions of horseflies that swarm everywhere. In Rio, more than 600,000 people-15% of the city's population-live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Testing Place | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...influenced have not imitated him but have gone their own way, forging new electronic, mathematic or aleatory (chance) musical techniques. His own ideal is still "to rejoin the eternal durations and resonances, to apprehend the inaudible which is above music." Meantime, he is content to clap on his beret, pack up his music paper, and drive off for some bird watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Backward Revolutionary | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...flexible, bending at each ball joint. But when tightened by a winch or a similar device, the cable pulls all parts together and in effect freezes the line in whatever position it is in. It then becomes the functional equivalent of a stick. If the astronaut's power pack has malfunctioned but he is otherwise alright, he can pull himself in, hand over hand, on the rigid tether. If he is unconscious, the loose tether can be gently reeled in, then made rigid to stop him in relation to the spacecraft, then reeled again, and so on until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Technology: Flexi-Firm Tether | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...showed off new gear that promises to greatly expand the versatility of television. Most impressive of the items is a $65,000 combination camera and videotape recorder (VTR) that will enable a single roving newsman to record news events on tape for immediate broadcast. The 50-lb., battery-powered pack can tape up to 20 minutes of black-and-white action on a single reel, does away with the gear-laden truck and crew now required for mobile videotape coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Replaying for Profit | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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