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...ONLY LIVE TWICE. Sean Connery is back as Agent 007, this time blowing up a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. haunt hidden in the cra ter of a Japanese volcano. But the Bonds -which have grossed $125 million to date -are beginning to tarnish a bit around their gilt edges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 14, 1967 | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

John Levin was unable to find a tarnish in the polished game of Princeton ace Les Buck and bowed 6-1, 7-5 at number one. Bernie Adelsberg lost speedily, 6-4, 6-3, in the second slot. Previously undefeated Rocky Jarvis (four) and fellow sophomore Steve Devereux (six) also were surprising straight set losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Upset Netmen, 5-4,On Five Singles Victories | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

...church's mission is to be defined that broadly, its ministers will obviously face some pitfalls. They may become involved in complicated situations they do not understand, and they may tarnish the spiritual aura of the church. The intellectual hero of many of the new activists is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran minister who was executed by the Nazis at the age of 39 for participating in an assassination plot against Hitler. He called for a new "worldly Christianity" to serve a civilization that had "come of age" and no longer needed to be pointed to a "beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE CHURCHES INFLUENCE ON SECULAR SOCIETY | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Cleaning. The unwholesome mess that U.S. citizens and corporations spew into that great sewer in the sky costs them dearly-$11 billion a year in property damage alone, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties. Steel corrodes from two to four times as fast in urban and indus trial regions as in rural areas, where much less sulphur-bearing coal and oil are burned. The erosion of some stone statuary and buildings is also greatly speeded by high concentrations of sulphur oxides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: Menace in the Skies | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Whether the former bank chief's dis closures would tarnish Sukarno's image with the Indonesian masses is questionable. But General Suharto was patient. Scheduled for trial are 14 more former Cabinet members, including onetime Deputy Premier Subandrio, who, say military investigators, masterminded the plot with Sukarno's support-to steer Indonesia into Peking's camp via last October's abortive Communist coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Who's on Trial? | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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