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...decide within the next two weeks whether to grant Haravrd Upward Bound a compromise request. Administrators at the School of Education insist that the program will continue, with undiminished energy and enthusiasm, even if OEO rejects the proposal. But it will remain, for another year at least, merely a stab in the dark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spread Thin | 1/19/1967 | See Source »

...this point, Uncle is just one more budget dreadful from the monster mill operated by Producer William Castle (Macabre, The Tingler). From here on, it turns into a wonderfully wacky game of you-stab-my-back-and-ril-stab-yours. Uncle strikes first. One dark night he hypnotizes the boy-Barnaby shakes the spell on the brink of a 100-ft. precipice. Barnaby strikes back with some toxic toadstools-Uncle precautiously checks the mushroom sauce. Uncle surrounds Barnaby and Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nepoticide v. Avunculicide | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...their brief rest stops, members of the walk tried to persuade hecklers to change their viewpoint about war. In response, they were hostilely disputed and often taunted. Said one teenager from Dorchester, "It [the war in Vietnam] is just like when you have a fight with a gang. They stab you and you want to stay them back...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Pacifists Attacked on the Third Day Of March from Boston to the Cape | 8/9/1966 | See Source »

Gloria Davy lay nude and face down on a downstairs divan, strangled and mutilated. Sue Farris was stabbed nine times and strangled, her wrist-bound body left in a second-floor bathroom. Mary Ann Jordan's corpse was in a front bedroom, stabbed five times, including one thrust in the left eye and one in the heart. Next to her were Pat Matusek, strangled with wrists bound; and Pam Wilkening, also bound by the wrists, who had been stabbed in the heart. In the adjoining front bedroom sprawled Nina Schmale, bound at the wrists, gagged, knifed four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: One by One | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...free lunch, gleaming spittoons, and an opulent nude over the bar. But what came back after Prohibition was mixed drinking and the thick-carpeted, chromium-cold cocktail lounge. Now, in a reach to recapture some of the old clubby atmosphere, bar-and-grills across the U.S. are making a stab at introducing the English (or Irish or Scottish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Euphoria Is a Pub | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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