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Word: schoolgirls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 5, 1957, the body of 15-year-old Schoolgirl Victoria Zielinski, her brains splattered about, was found along the bank of a sandpit in Mahwah, NJ. Within three months, Edgar Smith, 23, a knockabout machinist, was charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death for her murder. Eleven years later, challenging the death-house limbo record set by Caryl Chessman, Edgar Smith is still alive, fighting-and writing-for his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did I Do It? | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...vulgarity of Las Vegas weddings. With sad humor, she tells of a visit to Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia, she describes a visit with John Wayne: how, as a round-eyed California schoolgirl, she yearned for some young man to promise, as Wayne had promised a heroine in a movie, to build her a home "at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Melancholia, U.S.A. | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

Metzger plowed some $500,000 of it back into pay dirt to shoot Therese and Isabelle in France. It has much of the patina of a real movie, even though Actress Gael looks anything but a schoolgirl with her eyeliner and bottle-blonde tartiness. But Essy Persson, the woman in Woman, does manage a plausible interpretation of a troubled teenager, and Metzger has taken enough pain's with his brooding photography to let at least some of the spectators kid themselves into believing that they have come to an art house to see some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Therese and Isabelle | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...cries and panicked running about. A few seconds later, a single low-flying jet plane cut a straight line across the town, releasing as it went six pairs of rockets. Two plowed caverns into the grass huts outside the Red Cross headquarters at Saint Stephen's School, where schoolgirl volunteers sat outside preparing garri for the evening meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Faced with an Impasse | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...wrote an instant bestseller, The Cradle of the Deep, a purported autobiographical account of how she and her father adventured through the Seven Seas for 17 years. The only flaws were an obvious lack of nautical knowledge and the fact that friends remembered her as a California schoolgirl. Shrugged Joan, as the Book-of-the-Month Club offered refunds: "Any damn fool can be accurate-and dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 24, 1967 | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

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