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Word: road (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been particularly ubiquitous in Yugoslavia, whose press has gleefully recounted a Montenegrin shepherd's report of a whistling, skyscraper-high UFO, told of UFOs streaking over the Istrian port of Koper, and detailed Truck Driver Milika Scepanović's brush with two saucers on the Kovina-Ivangrad road last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Sickles in the Sky | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Among single men, the favorite city is Bangkok. Its Petcahburi Road offers the neon-lit Goldfinger Massage Parlor, the Whisky A Go-Go Club and some 50,000 bar girls, but also impressive temples for inspection during the recuperative hours. The companionship of a girl who also numbers English among her several skills can be secured for $11 a day or $50 for a full five days. After Bangkok, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Taipei get about equal attention. Tokyo is particularly popular in summer because it is cooler, attracts those troopers who like modern nightclubs but also recognize that Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Five-Day Bonanza | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...first major picture that didn't win me an Oscar-and they say history repeats itself." About all that anyone else remembers is the song that he introduced in it, Thanks for the Memory. In 1939, Hope, Crosby and Dorothy Lamour were signed for The Road to Singapore (two other comedy teams-Burns and Allen, and Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie-refused to touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...late-show fans of the Road cycle know, gags took precedence over plot, locale and plausibility. Lamour would pop up in snowy Alaska during the Klondike gold rush wearing a sarong. The main goal of Hope and Crosby seemed to be to step on each other's lines, and the script was a dead letter. Once, when the writer happened onto the set, Hope called: "If you hear any of your own dialogue, yell bingo." A typical exchange, from Road to Utopia -Lamour: "You're facetious." Hope: "Keep politics out of this." Yet by 1962, when the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...could come up with this season is the "Bluenose Classic" in Halifax, Nova Scotia, over January 5-6. The hoopsters have gotten few breaks so far: on their slate of seven pre-Ivy games they got to play Navy here. But they got stuck with a ridiculous string of road trips, to Wesleyan, Williams, and the University of New Hampshire. The other three games are home, saving them treks to B.U., Northeastern, and tonight, M.I.T. No one enjoys playing on the fourth floor...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 12/20/1967 | See Source »

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