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Word: peters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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EASY RIDER. Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda cruise around the country on their choppers looking for the meaning of it all. If the self-pity becomes rather too heavy at times, Hopper (who also directed) has captured some telling bits of Americana on film and extracted a performance from Jack Nicholson that is a model of intuition and sensitivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 29, 1969 | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST, by Peter Kropotkin. The absorbing autobiography of a 19th century Russian prince turned anarchist who paid for his ideals in stretches of penury and imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 29, 1969 | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...custom that had to be dropped was the kiss of greeting between members. "Charlie Lucky [also known as Salvatore Luciana or Lucky Luciano] put a stop to this and changed it to a handshake," Joe Valachi told Author Peter Maas. " 'After all,' Charlie said, 'we would stick out kissing each other in restaurants and places like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...shrug. Local politicians and union leaders laid wreaths near places where refugees had been killed trying to escape from the East. A new political splinter group called for a night-time march to the Wall, to the point where in 1962 East German guards shot 18-year-old Peter Fechter and then left him on the ground to bleed to death. There were few marchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Learning to Live with the Wall | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...overwhelming consensus among politicians, economists and demographers is that the population explosion should be checked by making birth control devices and counseling more widely available, particularly to poor people. Nonsense, says a scientist writing in the British journal, New Society. According to Peter J. Smith, a lecturer in geophysics at the University of Liverpool, the problem - at least in the U.S. -is not lack of birth control but excess desire for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Population: The Explosive Desire for Children | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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