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Word: stampedes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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> A month after he had stamped himself as the world's fastest miler, with a 3-min. 54.4-sec. clocking at Wanganui, New Zealand, light-footed Peter Snell (TIME, Feb. 9) also proved himself a man of his word. Promising to entertain his Auckland neighbors with a sub-4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

In Djakarta, newspapers promptly blazoned stories of the U.S. role in the Dutch trooplift, and 100 students, right on cue, went into a shopworn routine. Toting bamboo spears, rocks and anti-American posters, they reduced the glass facade of the U.S. embassy to a saw-toothed shambles, smashed eight embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: How to Offend Everybody | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

The next item on the program was a cafeteria-style dinner of spaghetti, salad, and ice cream, at the end of which a pretty freshman rubber-stamped the back of your hand with indelible ink.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mirth and Joy Reign at Radcliffe Riot | 2/12/1962 | See Source »

Cleveland traces its Diana back to 1796, when Amsterdam Widow Elizabeth Hooft sold it. The painting was authenticated in 1959 by the late Dr. Ludwig Burchard. then the greatest living Rubens expert, who flatly discounted rumors that it was really the work of Rubens' assistant, Frans Snyders. Burchard. pointing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Would Rubens Paint a Bird? | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

This was perhaps the grimmest meeting over which John Kennedy had presided as President of the U.S. Around him sat the members of the National Security Council, along with other diplomatic and military leaders and an assortment of top scientists. On the coffin-shaped Cabinet table rested a thin book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: The Grimmest Meeting | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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