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...Juicy Brucie's" car was parked on Linden St. one block off Massachusetts Ave., and the DJ said "only a future leader of the world would have had the appalling audacity to steal hubcaps at six in the evening, when the streets are crowded with people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deejay Declares Hubcaps Taken By Harvardians | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Commit a foul? Play it loose? Try to steal the ball? Pray? Our Monday-morning quarterbacks suggest that it's advisable to avoid committing a foul, which would probably give Brown the lead and put the pressure on Harvard to score...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Crimson Basketball Team Defeated by Brown, 70-68 | 1/18/1965 | See Source »

...Flem Snopes type who manages a mammoth truck-farming plantation. His wife Julie-Ann is a neurotic Southern aristocrat. They have (what else?) an idiot child. Hero Reeve Scott is a young Negro just returned from the Army, determined to fight for his rights and not let Henry Warren steal his patch of land away from him. Reeve's mother is (what else?) the heroic matriarch who long ago was Miss Julie-Ann's black mammy. There are elegant dinners and a dynamiting, a courtroom scene and a prefrontal lobotomy. Doom impends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punch-Card Novel | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...Western Europe's energy now, some experts predict that it will grab 10% of the market by 1975-probably at the expense of coal's 48%. Gasmen are eager to hurry that day along. After the year 2000, the Dutch experts figure, atomic power will begin to steal the market from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Exploring the Big Bubble | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...peculiarly prone to treason. Because most of the traitors did not be lieve in God, she suggests that Communism or Nazism is the only alternative to faith in God. She is perfectly correct in charging the West, and Great Britain in particular, with egregious laxity in letting Communist spies steal so many atomic secrets. But she is on treacherous ground indeed when she says that this handful of traitors is a symptom of Western decadence and decline. Every society has its misfits, and always will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Chose Damnation | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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