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Sprawling beneath the new two-story observation tower atop North Mountain, the South Korean capital of Seoul throbs in the midst of a boom that can be seen as well as heard. Skeletons of new office buildings and hotels crosshatch the horizons, schools are going up, black factory smoke fouls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: No War, No Peace | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

"I don't like students' dress at all," the rabbi explained, "they should have more respect for college--not meaning you, you're wearing a tie, a jacket, and your hair is combed, you washed your face this morning--I don't like those big beards on boys; they don...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Alumni Day | 4/22/1969 | See Source »

They came in dusty pickup trucks and rattling secondhand cars. Old women in velveteen skirts and turquoise bracelets filed nervously past young men in tight Levi's, sunglasses and cowboy boots. Trim coeds talked with old men in shabby clothes and tall black felt hats. Judged by any criterion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Pride of the Reservation | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Half an hour before the chimes begin, the scene outside the railings of the Patriarchal Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is like a wild party in the dance hall of a remote and dowdy workers' settlement. Shrill-voiced girls in brightly colored scarves and slacks (admittedly a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Easter Procession | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

A schoolmarm in tweed skirts and sensible shoes? That hardly sounds like Britain's Vanessa Redgrave, protester for all reasons. Still, she is starting a school for children in England. "We've got all kinds of ideas of what the school should be" says Vanessa, "but I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 21, 1969 | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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