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Stashinsky pulled through. While passing Rebet on the staircase of an office building, he pointed the six-inch aluminum barrel at Rebet's face and pulled the trigger. Rebet toppled without a sound, and Stashinsky did not look back as he walked to a canal and dropped the weapon into the water. Two years later, he killed another exiled Ukrainian leader, Stefan Bandera, almost as smoothly. But while watching a newsreel of Bandera's funeral in a movie theater, Stashinsky felt his conscience catching up with him. "It hit me like a hammer," he said. "From then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: A Poor Devil | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...rate of about half an acre a day. The strips are sealed together (one company uses heat, the other mastic and tape). The resulting seams are buried in twelve-inch trenches and covered with dirt to anchor the liner to the lake floor. Recreational lakes need an additional six-inch layer of earth to protect the plastic bottom from being holed by boat anchors and fish spears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Lakemakers | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

With a $30 million sigh of relief, 20th Century-Fox finally brought Elizabeth Taylor and a real live six-inch Egyptian asp within striking distance of one another for the death scene in Cleopatra. "The asp," said Fox flacks somewhat ambiguously, "has been in training for two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 8, 1962 | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...umentary authority. "A short circuit of the emotions prevents the promiscuous person from enjoying really meaningful relationships." That is about as deep as the diagnosis goes, although at the end of all Purex shows there is a sort of analytical epilogue featuring guests with responsible-sounding names and six-inch titles. This week's visitor is Dr. Aaron Rutledge, whose billing is "Director of the American Association of Marriage Counselors and Head of the Counseling and Psychotherapy Program at the Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit." His wisdom will be seined with questions that range upward in difficulty from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tiddely-Pom | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...Crimeds added one two-point conversion, and a six-inch field goal by are-footed tickle Paul Cowan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIME Whips Elis | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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