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Auburn hair swirled into a massive cone above her head, her strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 180 Ibs.) figure dominating the stage, she swept through Beatrice's gothic intricacies with the ease of a nanny crooning a lullaby. Her voice was round, smooth and flexible, negotiating the score'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New & Excellent | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

With raw flair, swivel-hipped sex, lurid color and fundamental rhythms. King Kong has clapped a rough hand on English shoulders to lead its new audience through the shebeens (speakeasies) and back alleys around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Cry, the Beloved Country | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

Putting on an awesome display of power and precision in the second period, the varsity poured six goals past a harried Barry van Gerbig to clinch a championship that Dartmouth has taken the past two years. Harry Howell and Dean Alpine led the attack with two goals and two assists...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Sextet Trounces Princeton, 9-2 To Clinch Ivy Hockey Crown | 3/1/1961 | See Source »

This necessarily and grossly oversimplifies Kahn's arguments. For example, he uses phrase "alert our strategic forces," but does so in concrete detail; it is precisely this precision that separates Kahn from many writers who facilely ignore the chasm between conception and reality.

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: 'What if the Russians, tomorrow...?' | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

A hard-skating, precision-passing Boston College hockey team handed the Crimson its first loss in twelve starts last night, winning 4-2 in the Garden before a capacity crowd of 14,000.

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: B.C. Eagles Down Varsity Sextet, 4-2, In Beanpot Tourney Finals at Garden | 2/14/1961 | See Source »

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