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...football, Dave Davis and Bobby Leo, members of the class of 1967 drafted by the Boston Patriots, both won't be with that team this season for different reasons. The six-foot, 235-pound Davis, the Crimson's all-Ivy defensive tackle, reactivated an old injury in training camp and was dropped from the team...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Runners Set Records This Summer; Pats Must Do Without Davis, Leo | 9/26/1967 | See Source »

...Viet Cong sometimes seem to prefer even to their newly acquired modern amenities. Not long ago, an American patrol near a 1st Air Cavalry base in the Central Highlands came across a monster crossbow hidden in the jungle. It was cocked at the sky, ready to shoot a six-foot spear into some unsuspecting chopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Enemy's Weapons | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...scoutmaster is portrayed by Fred MacMurray, whose numerous Disney movies (The Absent-Minded Professor and four others) have made him the studio's most popular character since Mickey Mouse. Fred presents the hero as the sort of six-foot sissy who plays with little kids because he's scared of the bigger boys, and who helps little old ladies across the street because he doesn't dare offer his arm to a slick chick. No real boy, of course, would accept such an unmitigated gnerd as his leader, but the producers assemble about 20 Hollywood children, fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Into the Jaws of Heck | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

Annoyed Antiochians climbed up on the roof of the dormitory and with strips of linen spelled out in six-foot letters a message for the bombardiers to zero in on: "SCREW...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Conference on Draft Blasts Ranks and 2-S | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...abound. A butterfly is burned alive, and a Buddhist monk pantomimes immolation. An American G.I., in the form of an enormous skeletal death god, hangs in front of the proscenium with blackened doll babies in its eye sockets, a Superman shield on its chest, barbed-wire guts and a six-foot bomb in place of genitalia. An American colonel is satirized as being "anti-Communist, anti-queer, anti-drink, anti-cigarettes." At the end of the first act, the entire cast appears onstage wearing paper bags over their heads. Whimpering, they stumble over the footlights and into the auditorium, pressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: Voices of Protest | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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