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...these invalids around here?" asked Roger. He sat way down in his chair, as he lingered over coffee in the Adams House dining hall. He raised his hand and pointed around the room. "Two wheelchairs, three guys on crutches, an arm cast, there's a guy with a patch over his eye . . . Shit...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: GOING CRAZY AT HARVARD They Shoot Horses . . . | 2/13/1970 | See Source »

...Yazoo City youngsters, that education will inevitably be social as well as academic. Black and white youngsters at the Bettie E. Wool folk Elementary School were seen sliding together on a patch of playground ice. Black high school students casually joined their new classmates to integrate the Town and Country Kitchen, a previously all-white teenage hangout a block from the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Getting Together in Yazoo | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...TELL you the story of Waller Creek. Waller Creek winds along the entire length of the University of Texas campus, furnishing the only break in the mass of buildings. Below my dormitory was a beautiful patch of huge cypress trees, oak trees, and a tangle of smaller trees. I'd been around, under, or in those trees ever since the summer after my junior year in high school...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...very gravity of the situation may cause Indira and her foes to overcome their differences, but the split has already caused damage. Even if they once more patch up their quarrel, the spectacle of the public spats can only weaken the party's appeal to India's voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Schismatic Octopus | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...bowmen stalking the wily whitetail. The deer were in little danger; while one in four gun hunters bags a whitetail each season, only one in 20 bow hunters is successful. Reducing the odds further, Bear chose to hunt on St. Martin Island, an uninhabited, densely wooded patch in Lake Huron that stands as a kind of moated fortress of the whitetail. Associate Editor Ray Kennedy joined Bear. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Of Bear, Bow & Buck | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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