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Word: stunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students donned homemade Russian uniforms, doctored a car to look like a Soviet military sedan and calmly drove through a checkpoint in the Communist Wall, unchallenged by the border guards. The story of the ingenious escape obviously got around, for last week West Berliners were chuckling over a similar stunt pulled off a fortnight ago with the help of American uniforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: O Tannenbaum | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

John F. Seegal '67 arranged the fracas as a publicity stunt for Miss Diamond's new show. "Those Wonderful Days of Burlesque", which is appearing in Boston for a week before bombing into New York. In exchange for enthusiastic Harvard bodies posing for pictures, Russ Sabbey, the show's publicity director, doled out free tickets to performances next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They Came to Purloin Her Panties, But Hope Diamond Was Not There | 11/24/1965 | See Source »

...widow who has sent friends and bigwigs thousands of copies of a book attacking the FBI. Ever since, the G-men have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt finally traps two agents breaking and entering his house. With that for leverage, he can "push in J. Edgar Hoover's nose" and get the FBI off his client's innocent back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grand Race | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

Moyers rises at 6:15 a.m. in his five-bedroom brick home in McLean, Va., tries to squeeze in at least an hour with the children. Sometimes he frolics with them, and on special occasions performs his "magic" stunt of pulling a nickel out of an ear or a nose. More often he reads to them; he has just finished the legend of Paul Bunyan for six-year-old Cope (named after the Marshall publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: L.B.J.'s Young Man In Charge of Everything | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...newsmen. He had a startling message: the secret of his longevity, he said, was a lifetime of drinking beer. Beer in wine-loving Italy? Such gimmicks, virtually unheard of in the country until a few years ago, have doubled Italian beer consumption since 1958. The St. Peter's stunt is only one of many brought about by a new figure in European business: the public relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: P.R. Goes Continental | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

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