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...some real scouting around for points. Neville Hayes, Tony Fingleton, Bob Corris, Jim Seubold, and the Crimson wrecking crew are looking toward the Princeton meet in February, and won't be stopped by Dartmouth. Unless Coach Bill Brooks does a lot of experimenting, the score will be pleasingly plump...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Statistics Say Green Swimmers Ought to Win (P.S., They Won't) | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...What the shrewd King and his crafty sage Cardinal Richelieu lived with has for years been tucked away in dark corners of French provincial manor houses. Tastemongers used to consider Louis XIII too ponderous by comparison to the more delicate, later Louisiana that most people are afraid to plump down on. But no longer, for a revival of Louis XIII antiques has tripled their prices in the past five years; they are now the freshest item on the French market. Scarce, perhaps, but a perfect Treize chair runs to $2,000, compared with the $5,500 that a great Quinze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiques: A Straighter Bourbon | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...pretensions of the Soviet space program, gripe a little at the "administrative fools" who run the labs they work in. And pipe this. The women wear false eyelashes in bed. Karl Marx wrote an awful lot of words. It seems that now by eating them ihe Russians may get plump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Masses into Classes | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...fight is as much personal as po litical. Adenauer has always been dis dainful of plump, amiable Erhard, and lately Erhard's leadership has indeed faltered. He has not been able to over come his party's divisions, and he is troubled by several economic dilemmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Socialists Gaining | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Seance on a Wet Afternoon. The medium looks like a plump 40-year-old schoolgirl whose face has the form and consistency of unbaked bread. She speaks to her timorous husband in plaintive, halting phrases, pausing from time to time to brush away some imaginary disturbance in the middle of her forehead. "Arthur wants me to be recognized for what I am. What we're doing is not ... wrong, Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Medium Rare | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

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