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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the class returned as seniors in the fall of 1938, they were greeted by the damage from one of New England's most violent hurricanes. Harvard suffered $100,000 of damage but tree-lovers (whose sons and daughters today carry on the tradition) were most alarmed by the demise of nine stately elms that were flattened along Memorial Drive outside Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1939: Depression Wanes, War Nears; They Riot, Politick | 6/8/1964 | See Source »

...them probably originated no farther distant than "Little Havana" in southwestern Miami. Using code names such as "Tiger," "Corsair," and "Alpha Five," they beamed a 24-hour torrent of chatter, reading off metronome-like numbers in Spanish and repeating cryptic messages: "Caesar is approaching the Colosseum," "The little tree is in the middle of the pasture." More than once, Castro stations broke in angrily. Cried one Castroite at the microphone: "You have no guts to come here, son of a whore! You only know how to kill children. Effeminates! Tell me where you are-I'll get you." Replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: War of Nerves | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...mountainous billboard heroine of Boccaccio '70 with out any trick camera work, and, bugged by shutterbugs, she understandably responds with whatever comes to hand. Last week it was a rifle with telescopic sights, and she spent a busy few minutes sniping away at a photographer in a tree a few hundred feet from the manse. Fact is, Ekberg worries too much. If you like the motherly type, those extra pounds don't look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 29, 1964 | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...grew up and ruled. The secret of his easy popularity, thinks Author Magnus, was that he scarcely ever betrayed by word or deed what some of his countrymen dimly suspected: the fact that the last fruits of the semifeudal social order he represented were already wormy on the tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Most Perfect Man | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...think that I shall never see A CRIMSON lovely as a tree, But since today exams befall Tomorrow comes No Crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Crime | 5/20/1964 | See Source »

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