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...Having turned washing-machine salesman and failed, he has been taken to a refuge called Suicide Sanctuary. The sanctuary is run by a do-good nut (Bayliss again). As his wife and helper, Patricia Routledge hops around like a kangaroo whose pouch has just been rifled. Her name is Rover, and she has an imaginary dog named Maureen. "I hate the whole beastly business," says More. "The competition, the rat race." Replies Bayliss, in a tone typical of the play: "You mustn't hate the rat race. The human race, yes-but not animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Down with Blimpcompoops | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Cornell employs a defense with five men up front, two linebackers, two halfbacks, a safety, and a "rover" to follow the play. The Big Red have yielded five touchdowns and 659 yards through the air this season. That may prove the way for Harvard to travel today...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Harvard vs. Cornell In Crucial Ivy Battle | 10/15/1966 | See Source »

...some of the features that their U.S. cousins have-including padded dashboards and emergency flasher lights. The Europeans, too, are offering disc brakes, recessed knobs and fixtures, both front and rear safety-belt anchorages, plus such equipment as impact-absorbing bodies (France's Renault and Britain's Rover 2000) and built-in roll bars (Sweden's Volvo). Nonetheless, to judge from the reactions of the crowds that visited the Paris auto show last week, speed and styling were far more important than safety. Among the new models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Safety Second | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...coup was a bloody affair. In the Western regional capital of Ibadan, where Ironsi had gone to plead for national unity before a meeting of tribal chiefs and emirs, Northern officers kidnaped him from the governor's palace and ordered him at gunpoint into a military Land Rover; his body was reportedly discovered last week outside a nearby village. At the army barracks at Ikeja, near the Lagos international airport, Northerners shot down every Ibo officer they could find, pursued others through Lagos itself, causing widespread panic in the capital; after one shooting incident, dozens of motorists abandoned their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Toward Disintegration? | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Wallabies & Fossickers. In conducting the continent's most accurate head count since Phillip's day, Prime Minister Harold Holt sent 18,500 census enumerators into the cities, suburbs and outback to track down some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Filling in the Ghastly Blank | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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