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...protection against tear gas, the students scrambled over tracks and platforms, smashing train windows, disemboweling seats, splintering and setting fire to doors, benches and stairways. One rioter shinnied up a pole to smash the signal lights - he touched a high-voltage line and crashed to earth in a shower of sparks, critically injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Violence in Shinjuku Station | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...squashing a TV station. When a commercial is announced, a man ostensibly from Allstate Insurance will cup his hands around a tiny house, saying "You're in good hands with . . .," and drop the house with a great shattering crash. In other sequences, a girl steps out of the shower, answers the phone, hands it into the shower and says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...logged more than his share of flights and has been temporarily grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened, then kept lathering away, sure the shell would not disrupt either him or the plumbing. Right enough. It landed 75 yards away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1968 | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

Originally a hobby, the network has grown far beyond Roth's expectations. The shower from space has increased, and, with United picking up the tab, Roth has stepped up his activities. He now publishes advance word of the time and place of satellite re-entries in a weekly bulletin that goes out to 118 airlines in the U.S. and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Tip on Re-entry | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...breeze comes by (a breeze that has made it all the way to Cambridge from the sea, all the way through Boston), it washes over the sweat and cools you off. It is almost as good as when you come out of the bathroom still wet from the shower...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: The Heat | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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