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At 7 a.m. on January 31, however, a strong wind blew in off the scenic Harlem River, and ripped the bubble off the blowers. The results were especially disastrous since the fabric of the dome came down and was punctured by the light poles. City building regulations require permanent metal...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Columbia Bubble Bursts And Is Buried by Snow | 3/18/1969 | See Source »

It was as a television performer between 1959 and 1962 that handsome, red-haired John Freeman became a nationwide celebrity though British viewers of his astringent Face to Face interview show each week seldom saw anything but the back of his head as the cameras zoomed in for closeups of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Ambassador Extraordinary | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Changing the Style. While some rival players scoffed at the "silly sticks," the fact that Mikita and Hull developed into the most potent one-two scoring combination in hockey induced many other pros to experiment with the new blades. Now more than half of the players in the National Hockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey: Day of the Banana Stick | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Live Coals. Unfortunately, the Indian women and their men brought some unadmirable traits to one another. Traditionally responsible for the torture of prisoners in their tribes, the women were capable of incredible cruelty. When Colonel William Crawford, a friend of George Washington's, was captured in 1782, it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex and the Single Squaw | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

It was in 1954 that the Geneva Conference ended the French-Indo-China war and created three control commissions (for Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) to supervise the cease-fire and to prevent future violations of its agreements. The commission in Viet Nam-the largest and most important-has held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: How Not to Supervise a Peace | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

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