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...Raab rivers worked loose and washed over to the Austrian bank. On April 1, a 60-year-old Austrian farmer digging for sand on the banks of the Pinka hit a mine, which blasted off both his hands. Three weeks ago, Claudia Kracher, 2½, was playing in a pile of sand that had been trucked up from the Raab by a neighbor for mixing concrete. She stepped on a mine, which severed her left foot from her leg, and died the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria: The Little Boxes | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Still, an estimated 1,500,000 Italians will get a welcome break. Charges will be dropped against petty thieves, burglars, check bouncers, and scofflaws, who pile up parking tickets in anticipation of amnesty. Even tax evaders will escape jail sentences if they pay up. Because the amnesty only concerns crimes committed before the end of January 1966, it does not affect such accused bigamists as Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren. Since they have gone right on living together, it is presumed that they have persisted in their crime beyond the cutoff date. If Ponti and his pals find that less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Law: Amnesty Time in Italy | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Crooks said that if the applications continue to pile in at the present rate, the summer school would probably have to devise a policy of selective admissions to many of the courses. "It probably wouldn't work on the first-come, first-served principle," Crooks said, "but I'd sure hate to disappoint a fellow who had come all the way from Omaha and had filed his application in January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deluge of Applications Floods Summer School | 5/11/1966 | See Source »

...minute later Neubert upped the tally to 2-0, by scooping a loose ball amidst a pile of players into the Indian net. Harvard's all-out attack succeeded again when Ted Leary cut in front of the net and tucked the ball into the far corner to make the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Defeat Lacrosse Team, 9-6 | 5/9/1966 | See Source »

...apparently her only effort to get help. Using a coal shovel, she scraped on the basement floor for almost two hours. A woman next door was awakened and on the verge of calling police when the scraping stopped. That afternoon, as Sylvia lay moaning and mumbling incoherently on her pile of rags, Mrs. Baniszewski, Ricky, John B. Jr. and Paula sprinkled a box of soap powder on her, then added hot water. Afterward, John Jr. sprayed her with cold water from a garden hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Addenda to De Sade | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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