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...crowd which gathered on Mass Ave. showed little fear of an explosion. Most spectators believed the bomb threat was a Friday the 13th prank...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Coop Bomb Scare Linked to Robbery | 1/16/1967 | See Source »

...officer of the 5th dismissed the whole thing as a prank, but there was no assurance that it would not happen again. When a government representative promised a tense meeting of the Kano Chamber of Commerce that all was under control, he was hooted down. "Assurances are no longer any good," retorted one local business leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Massacre in Kano | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Nielsen Co.'s normally top-secret sample viewers, designed to ensure that they would watch Bob's performance. "I chose his show to rig because he is such a great man," joked Sparger. "Maybe I'll hire him," cracked Hope. Sparger repeated the prank three other times, but Nielsen was not amused. The company filed a $1,500,000 damage suit in Oklahoma City's Federal District Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 1, 1966 | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

Band of Outsiders, another backward-looking venture into crime, is a prank by France's prolific Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless), a wayward but talented wonder who fills the gap between his more inspired movies by sketching out such trifles as Outsiders. Heroine Anna Karina plays a wistful student who meets two ne'er-do-wells and helps them plan the robbery of her aunt's chateau. They bungle the job, but meanwhile abandon themselves to a couple of amusing Godardian escapades-taking over a cafe with an impudent little dance of alienation, romping through the Louvre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Wave Felony | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...Room to Prank. By comparison with a city slum, an Appalachian holler offers an infinitely rich, exciting life, which mountain folk extol in a courtly tongue directly descended from their Scots-English ancestors, who first penetrated the region two centuries ago. Children have creeks to fish in, plenty of room to "prank," as their parents say. Last hog-killing time, several of the Handshoe boys dried a hog's bladder, filled it with peas to make a giant-size rattle. Then, relates Floyd's wife Dollie, still shaking with laughter at the memory, they "took and tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appalachia: The Happy Poppies Of Handshoe Holler | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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