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To the casual observer, the heavy snow, gale winds and high tides that struck most of the Northeast last week seemed to have turned Rhode Island into a disaster area. Like homeless refugees, long lines of crying children clinging to their parents snaked through the gloom. But it was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: End Measles Now | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Watery Trenches. Each day the patrols snaked into the rain forest clutched by the tendrils of vines, jabbed by thorns and needlebushes, wearily resting from time to time on the rotting jungle mat that teemed with ants, snakes, and scorpions. At night they placed their tents on the squishy forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Name of the Game Is Zap, Zap, Zap | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

The crowds of inaugural visitors have not forgotten either. Huge lines snaked across the hill to the site of John Kennedy's grave yesterday despite sub-freezing temperatures.

Author: By Donald E. Graham, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Washington Prepares for Inaugural As Mobs of Texans Invade Capital | 1/20/1965 | See Source »

Ballet of Baseball. At Santiago's "Sports City" stadium, two days after Fidel's appearance at the plate, some 1,000 boys and girls in dazzling white snaked their way through tortuous drills, finally spelling out "July 26." Then, in a hilarious pantomime, 640 youngsters filed onto the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: On with the Show | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

The 3.81-mile course was part road, part track; in the infield, it snaked through a series of sharp hairpin turns; then it swept onto Daytona's ultrafast, banked stock-car oval. In the lighter, more maneuverable Lotus, Gurney picked up valuable seconds on the turns; Foyt got the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: I'll Take Horsepower | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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