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Harvard was clocked in 6:24.3. The crew got off at 35, opened a quick ten-foot lead over high-stroking Washington, and was never put under pressure at any time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Vies in Semi-Finals After Romp Over Huskies | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...royal. Murderer he may be, but Claudius is also an undeniably efficient administrator. In the Play Scene, he gives no signs of paying attention to what is going on until his cue to break the party up. This scene is, however, visually appealing. Five attendants stand about with ten-foot poles topped by simulated deer's heads, orange streamers, and flaming torches; the resulting Hallowe'enish atmosphere is appropriately scary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sawyer Sparks Stratford 'Hamlet' | 7/7/1964 | See Source »

...World's Fair looks as if it had been created by some usually normal person who had taken meascaline and allowed his consciousness to go wild. The world's biggest cheese a (seventeen-ton cheddar) sits near a simulated cigar chimney that blows ten-foot smokerings 150 feet into the air. Near the "Festival of Gas" loom nine life-size dinosaurs, and one display boasts a "university for porpoises...

Author: By Robert F. Wagner jr., | Title: World's Fair | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...main compound, surrounded by an ugly ten-foot cement-block wall, is composed of three villas. Khrushchev's is designed in Soviet-modern, a boxlike, sandstone, two-story building topped with a roof-garden penthouse reached by an outside elevator. A huge porch is enclosed by glass on two sides and opens to the sea. Near by is a similar two-story villa for servants and security men. The third building is a recreation house that erupts in a variety of verandas, terraces and wall-to-wall windows. Attached to the back is a glassed-in gymnasium with Oriental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Camp Nikita | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...Minatitlan in southern Mexico. The Mexican government lent Sweeney a helicopter, and with it he flew from village to village scrutinizing the terrain for any big heads, and occasionally landing to inquire if the villagers had seen one. The helicopter pilot eventually spotted the head, buried in a ten-foot hole and surrounded by such dense jungle that it was invisible to anyone 15 yards away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sweeney's Way | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

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