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...official timer stood by the referee counting down the final minute of the game. Vaughan took a through pass from Gene Warner and powered a 12-yard shot into the back corner of the Providence goal, thus averting the JVs' first shut out in 39 games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Booters Nip Unsettling Friars | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

...show designed to match up 300 inventors of new products with the men who can market them. As the visitors saw, modern man's ingenuity has lately produced a gun that fires a net to enmesh would-be muggers, skis with wheels for schussing on dry land, a timer that rations children's television viewing, tongs that carry melons without bruising them, and a keyless electronic lock that opens when hidden pressure points are pushed. There is even an ingenious array of glass tubes that waters indoor plants while a householder is away: Such an exhibit would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE GREAT RUSH FOR NEW PRODUCTS | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...inhaled deeply, holding the smoke down as long as possible, and passed the joint. The chances are excellent that nothing will happen to any first-timer, mostly because he has such fear about marijuana that he fights off its effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Straight Adult | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...hoot of an owl is a dire sign of impending disaster. Back in the days of guerrilla war, some Viet Cong outfits even trained kamikaze foxes to make a beeline for light at night, then sent them off into well-lit U.S. and Vietnamese installations, carrying explosives and a timer on their backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: PURPLE GEESE & OTHER FIGHTING FAUNA | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...widows in miniskirts and portly housewives in kimonos turn up where the boys are. Some come in for the evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre d' guides each first-timer to a host after discreetly asking her preference. Regular customers streak straight to their favorites. Says one fortyish matron: "My husband leaves me alone with my two children at home for his golfing. I make my husband mind my children once in a while so that I can come here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Just a Gigolo-san | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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