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Word: pathe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form of frustration, no kind of rage, can compare to the feelings of a Manhattanite stuck in traffic. He taps his feet, pounds his fist against the windowpane, vows to move to Colorado, and wishes he could jump out of his conveyance with a ray gun, cutting a deadly path through the surrounding metal wilderness of trucks, buses and cars. Ray guns, so far, are out; but there is an escape machine that a small, hardy band of New Yorkers are using to beat the traffic nightmare: the bicycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Escape Machine | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...meet at regular intervals (next meeting: October) to discuss common European problems, ranging from defense to setting up a "European university" at Florence. As one German official explained, "If this meeting did nothing to ease Britain's entry, it certainly placed no new difficulties in Britain's path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: Half Step Forward | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...court-martialed for Communist activities as a South Korean officer in 1948, escaped with his life to become an anti-Communist-and the ROK army's chief of operations. He speaks little English, never made the study tour of U.S. military camps that has been the usual path to success for ROK officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The New Strongman | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...sighed silver-maned Boston Lawyer George Alpert, 63, last week, "the campaign that I have been conducting for the past five years is a crusade. I have learned to my sorrow that the road of the crusader is not exactly a path of roses." No one else thought that "crusader" was the appropriate word for Alpert. as he announced that the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad, of which he has been president since 1956. was filing for reorganization under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: No Haven | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...original Peacock Throne of Iran taken from Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1739 has disappeared. The Peacock throne now in the Gulistan Palace, Teheran (see cut) was built in the early loth century by an Isfahan jeweler for Path Ali Shah and was originally called the Sun Throne. There is another throne in the Istanbul museum which is referred to as a Peacock throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 7, 1961 | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

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