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...Harvard goals 90 seconds apart put the home team in the hole. Ben Smith scored the first one on a breakaway, whipping a hard forehand into the upper right corner after a perfect feed from Kent Parrot. Lightning struck again at 7:51 in the form of Garrity's poke from the edge of the crease following a rebound off Bob Fredo's low drive...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall, | Title: Bruin Six Defeats Crimson Squad; Darling Scores In Final Seconds | 12/16/1965 | See Source »

...Shoes. Beyond the salespeople, many stores are using new methods to woo the customer. During the Christmas rush, Bullock's of Los Angeles invites customers to pick up one of two lapel buttons as they enter: a "Browse 'n' poke" one that will warn salespeople away or a "Find 'n' flee" one that will get its bearer immediate service. To get maximum effect from a sale, Detroit's Martin Alpert & Son jewelry store instituted midnight to 3 a.m. hours to accommodate night-shift workers. For favored customers, I. Magnin of San Francisco will dispatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: The Customer Is SO Right | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...Simon was interested. Last summer Los Angeles County Museum Director Richard F. Brown, who has counseled Simon in many of his purchases, went to Liechtenstein to examine the prince's Leonardo in the sunlight of the palace courtyard. Simon is no collector to buy a pig in a poke. Before bidding $2,234,400 for Rembrandt's Titus last March, he had the painting gone over by experts; in fact, earlier, when Titus was still privately owned, he refused to buy it because his advisers were not permitted to examine it thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Gambit in Graustark | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...taken for granted," concluded Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay after New York's overwhelmingly Democratic voters elected him mayor (see cover story). His comment could have been echoed by politicians in scores of cities and counties where the electorate refused to buy a pig in a poke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: A Bigger Club | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...never do, is make you believe it. Though the film is largely shot from the girl's viewpoint, we share her imagination and not, alas, her thoughts. The only sense of breakdown stems from her increasingly lurid hallucinations: walls turn to putty or open in great cracks; hands poke through to feel her breasts, and rapists wait patiently in her bed. Photographed in deep shadow, often with a swinging camera, such scenes look old-fashioned and crude. Films have developed more sensitive means of conveying states of consciousness than expressionism...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Repulsion | 11/10/1965 | See Source »

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