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...Crimson captain Ed Franquemont (152) set his team straight again but pinning Dennis Wright at 4:58. Franquemont had outclassed Wright, and a win by points was assured, but the captain was out for a pin. Franquemont picked up point after point as he continually tied-up the shorter, rounder Wright but he couldn't slip in a pinning hold...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Wrestlers Upset Cornell's Champs | 1/9/1967 | See Source »

...tiny, utilitarian Goggomobil, displayed a flashy new luxury coupé that has the sleek, low lines of Italy's Lancia, does 125 m.p.h. and costs $4,500. Daimler-Benz introduced a new Mercedes, the 250 S, which still bears a strong family resemblance but is longer, lower and rounder. Italy was represented by a glittering array of high-priced Ferraris, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos as well as by the nimble, lower-priced Fiats. As always, the Rolls-Royce exhibit drew large crowds. They may have been looking at a dying swan. The rumor in Britain is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Catching Up with Detroit | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...women's shoe styles stress comfort at the expense of sleekness, and emphasize a "little-girl look," with ankle straps and conspicuous buttons, buckles and bows. Needle-nosed tips have been replaced by rounder, softer toes, and heels are becoming even shorter and wider. At the same time, somewhat alarmingly, teen-age boys are taking to high heels. International Shoe has had a runaway success with its "Beatle Boots," which have 11-in. tapered heels; Melville Shoe Co. (Thorn McAn) has brought out a boot with a 2-in. tapered heel, also offers the teens zebra stripes and wildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: The Shape of Shoes | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Glowie Durfee, Harvard's regular 147-rounder, was injured in the Springfield yet Feb. 17 and has not wrestled in the two varsity meets since. "He's ready," Beckett said, "but I'm not sure I'm going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Squad Combats Injured, Impotent Brown | 2/27/1965 | See Source »

...still lacked the airiness of the Sun King's era. But historians call the earlier Louis' reign the "High Epoch," a period when Frenchmen culled ideas from the cultures of other European countries and refined them with their own innate good taste. Navigation had proved the world rounder and more compact than even Columbus thought. Rembrandt was mastering the play of light and shade, or chiaroscuro, as the baluster lathework of Louis XIII furniture tried to imitate. Louis XIII knew art lent dignity to the Crown. His style was spreading, iron hand in velvet glove with nationalism, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiques: A Straighter Bourbon | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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