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...have been installed that emit such a high-pitched whine that it will pain the eardrums of would-be invaders. From the East, over the Wall that runs alongside the building? Not at all. From the West. Militant West Berlin students have threatened to break into the plant and smash the printing presses-not to mention the faces of any Springer personnel who get in their way. To which Springer's four Berlin newspapers have replied with a steady stream of attacks on the students for "terrorism" and "treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishers: The Oak Attracts the Lightning | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Princeton managed to match that tally five minutes later on a 60-yard march, capped by tailback Dick Bracken's 2-yard smash around end, but after the first quarter Yale left 'em in the dust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Succumb in ICA4's, Baker 12th | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

Last week, in retaliation, the U.S. mounted the biggest air strike of the war against the most important of the two MIG bases that had not yet been bombed. Navy and Air Force jets rolled in five times to smash the base at Phuc Yen, northwest of Hanoi, turning the sky into a tapestry of fireballs. Later, Marine planes from Danang ventured farther north than they normally do to make an unusual night raid on Phuc Yen. The Communists filled in many of the bomb craters overnight, but U.S. planes were back the next day to chew out more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Into Exile | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...been a quarter of a century since a shy blonde out of Jamestown, N. Dak., named Peggy Lee (real name: Norma Egstrom) sang that lament with Benny Goodman's band. She did right-and made plenty money. The intervening years have brought her smash-hit records (Lover, Fever), success as a songwriter (Mañana, It's a Good Day), an Academy Award nomination as an actress (Pete Kelly's Blues), ardent fans (ranging from Duke Ellington to Rudolf Nureyev), and top nightclub engagements at $25,000 a week. They have also brought her serious illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Music: Parsimonious Peggy | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...association. Let the words exist as white ladders covered with water. Why be content with little sparks from occasional metaphor and simile when there is a bonfire to be built of twisted images and grammar. Dylan has applied the lessons of LSD, light shows and electronic music to smash the old patterns of reaction set by the old rules...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Bob Dylan | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

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