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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refuses to go halvers on the weekly food bill and leaves "hairs stuck around on the soap." Norwood makes a deal with Grady Fring the Kredit King to drive an Olds 98 to New York, expenses paid and $50 clear. Fortified by a bottle of NuGrape and a nickel pack of Nabs, he sets out on a jocular junket that confronts him with the second shortest midget in show business, a hypnotized chicken, his future wife, and a climactic offer of employment as "night man at the worm ranch." If this is vaudeville, it is vaudeville with a vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The First Novelists: Skilled, Satirical, Searching | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...years," says Brigadier O. D. Jackson, commander of the First Australian Task Force in Viet Nam. Whereas U.S. commanders resupply their units every other day in the field, the Aussies slide into "the deep green" prepared to go it alone for a week at a time-and manage to pack ten pounds less per man than the G.I.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Other Guns | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...accords more quickly. Industrial complexes, hotels, office buildings and even nests of nightclubs have sprung up around airports, just as cities grew around railroad terminals in the 19th century. Some affluent couples whisk from Washington to New York, or Detroit to Chicago, just for dinner and a show. Youngsters pack airline counters on weekends, asking for seats to any place that swings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Caught at the Crest | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Landing a few steps outside his doorstep, the student was talking with a girl in a dark-haired boy stepped in front him and asked him for a cigarette. With three other boys surrounding him, undergraduate offered him one diplomatically, but had the pack snatched of his hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Stomped For His Smokes | 7/19/1966 | See Source »

...guess I shouldn't have tried to grab the pack back out of his pocket, but they were my last butts," the student regretted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Stomped For His Smokes | 7/19/1966 | See Source »

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