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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The orangutan-Malay for "man of the forest"-is badly in need of a helping hand. Once these big red-haired primates (an adult male stands about 5 ft. tall, weighs 150 lbs.) inhabited the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra by the tens of thousands. Today, only 6,000 or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Saving the Man of the Forest | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

Ethel requested that all the tens of thousands of letters of condolence be answered; she sent telegrams to the families of two bystanders killed by a train as they waited for Kennedy's funeral train to pass through Elizabeth, N.J., and ordered a huge toy dog for a three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Family Tradition | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

IN THIS connection, it can be remarked that all men--black and white, yellow and red--accept those historical paradoxes or ironies found suitable or useful for a given occasion, and reject those lacking such utility. In this respect, therefore, the Black Experience is, I daresay, little more than an...

Author: By Martin Kilson, | Title: The Intellectual Validity of the Black Experience | 5/16/1968 | See Source »

Power Tens

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Winthrop House Captures Straus Cup; Eliot Wins in Crew; Kirkland Second | 5/16/1968 | See Source »

Unable to catch Winthrop, Kirkland resorted to power tens, but could only gain two seats. Thirty strokes from the finish Puritan cox Skip Grossman called a power ten and Winthrop crossed the line at 40 strokes per minute. The triumphant boat was clocked at 4:30.5 for the three-quarter...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Winthrop House Captures Straus Cup; Eliot Wins in Crew; Kirkland Second | 5/16/1968 | See Source »

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