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2. Next is the battle of the Alamo. Several people in the crowd try to involuntarily catch their breath. The scene shows Colonel Travis ("I shall never surrender or retreat... VICTORY OR DEATH.") drawing his famous line on the ground which his men were supposed to walk across if they...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Welcome to the Dallas Wax Museum | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

The three businessmen bought a big milling plant from the Pillsbury Co. for $550,000, and the deserted 98-ft.-high silos, which once stored a million bushels of wheat, were part of the deal. At first they seemed a problem. "We thought of uses for all the buildings but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Silos for Singles | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS is an adaptation by Bernard Miles of Henry Fielding's Rape Upon Rape, a ribald comedy about a corrupt magistrate whose target is damsels in distress. As was the custom of the period, the rapes will not be performed onstage. Music is by Laurie Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Travis Air Force Base, Calif.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope & the Pill | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

An aircraft repairman at Travis Air Force Base in California was admitted to the base hospital with severe malaise and nausea and passing dark urine. Liver function was abnormal, and a laboratory examination showed evidence of infectious hepatitis. Within 24 hours, not only the man's wife but all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Imported Hepatitis | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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