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A Cunning Rider. Besides the irksome presence of such minuscule bills, there was always the danger that sloppy language or slippery shirttail riders would go through unnoticed in the rush. Last week a Senate amendment to deny poverty funds to civil rights rioters was passed - but only after its sponsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: That Fenced-ln Feeling | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Steady rain and slippery roads cut the turnout to 21 at Sunday's Harvard-Wellesley bike race, but the weather didn't stop the cyclists from breaking the record for the 12.5-mile course.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peterson's Bike Wins Him Buss And New Cycle | 4/26/1966 | See Source »

British voters were plainly uninterested in such issues. Hence the campaign centered on personalities: Labor's Harold Wilson against the Conservatives' Ted Heath. The odds were on Wilson. Gone was the reputation as a slippery opportunist that had hurt him in the 1964 election. Instead, though operating with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Labor Sweep | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

High in the hills above Hollywood's Sunset Strip, a brick path worn slippery as slate leads to a sturdy, plain studio. Inside lives the man who last week was the most talked-about artist in all Los Angeles, 38-year-old Edward Kienholz. To keep in line the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Savonarola in the City of Angels | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

Practice was one thing; the race was another. At Daytona as at Le Mans, the accent was on endurance as much as speed, and the Daytona International Speedway's 3.81-mile course qualified admirably as a car killer. Cars had to decelerate violently to as low as 25 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Runaway at Daytona | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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