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Another witness was Petros Vlassis, a member of the far-left Lambrakis youth movement, one of the junta's special targets. After being beaten on the feet in the shower room on the roof of the Bouboulinas Street building where the tortures usually took place, he was forced to stand up. "They made me run around in a circle in that same torture chamber," recalled Vlassis. "They had moved the bench to one side a little, and I was in the middle of a circle made up of ten people. Each one of them held something-a stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Friendly Chats on Bouboulinas Street | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...literary fallout about an astronaut who returns from the moon with a funny little creature clinging to his space suit. His children make it their playmate and call it Squaps (the sound that answers all questions on the moon). Squaps enjoys the earth, especially his discovery of water -from shower baths, sprinklers and watering cans. And then comes the next full moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 5, 1969 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Thomas was seen running around the second floor of Dillon with a tape recorder playing Dionne Warwick's hit, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose." Some booters got hold of coach Munro and pushed him into the shower, fully-clothed...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Soccer Team Tops Hartwick, 1-0, Wins Berth in NCAA Semifinals | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

Died. Ferdinand Eberstadt, 79, Wall Street financier and one of the early masters of the corporate merger; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Once described as "a man whose manner is pleasantly abrasive, like a rough towel after a cold shower," Eberstadt was an enormously successful investment banker (F. Eberstadt & Co., Inc.) and mutual-fund pioneer (Chemical Fund), but his greatest fame came from his ability to help arrange some of industry's biggest mergers over the years: Dodge and Chrysler, United Artists and Transamerica Corp., Douglas Aircraft and McDonnell Aircraft and, on the day of his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES is a revival of the 1967 prison drama, restaged by Hollywood Actor Sal Mineo in a version calculated to fill what he must feel is a sado-masochism gap. Filled with the sight and sound of faces being beaten bloody on the shower floor, genitals being punched, bodies being raped, slugged, thrown and twisted in agony, this latest entry to homosexual theater is a carefully placed kick in the groin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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