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...happening," shrugged Oldenburg. They staged 48 separate events, each a minute long. Everything was sort of idiosymbolic. A huge white tube of canvas came wriggling into view, propelled by somebody underneath. Chuckle, chuckle-it's the Potomac. The blue ice cream ended up in paper plates on a picnic table, making the point that Washington is a hell of a party town. Two men sprayed the place with Flit guns loaded with a foul-smelling mixture. The sex came a little later. A lively girl with dark doe eyes, dressed in a black oilcloth shift, set up an ironing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happenings: Pop Culture | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...week businessmen in the pine-covered foothills of the Rockies were bitterly divided over the proposed construction of an institution to be called Rampart College. The school, complained one director of the Chamber of Commerce, would be about as welcome in Colorado Springs as "a skunk at a family picnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: Making Money by Making Enemies | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Trying to alleviate these dual problems, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has instituted a program offering family farmers longterm loans up to $60,000 to develop "camping grounds, swimming facilities, tennis courts, riding stables, vacation cottages and lodges, lakes and ponds for boating and fishing, docks, nature trails, picnic grounds and hunting preserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Recreation Crop | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...began like a trip to a church picnic. Crammed into the Land-Rover bouncing over South Viet Nam's heavily traveled Route 20 were American Missionary Elwood Jacobsen, 35, and Filipino Missionary Caspar Makil, 36, with their wives and five children. After months of ministering to primitive Vietnamese natives, the two missionaries and their families were headed for the Makil home near the mountain resort of Dalat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Death of the Missionaries | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...whole thing undulate provocatively before the eyes. Another, in a great Flanders Field of a poppy-covered hat and a gold choker, stands scornfully akimbo; only the candid bareness of her monolithic bust keeps her from being some long-remembered Miss Gardner scolding the second grade before the class picnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: O Rare Ben Johnson | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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