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Last week it was Art Arfons' turn again. His homemade Green Monster was nicknamed "the Garbage Truck" -because it was the ugliest and noisiest thing around. It cost Arfons only $10,000-$5,000 for the aluminum body, $5,000 for a J-79 jet engine (just like the one in F-104 supersonic fighters) that the Air Force apparently forgot about, put up for surplus sale. And, brother, could it ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Riding the Washboard | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...children were being held captive on a ranch somewhere near León. Nosing around a ranch in the area two days later, the police chief accidentally stepped into some soft earth. To his horror, out popped a woman's arm-the first clue in one of the ugliest chains of crime in Mexican history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Sisters of Shame | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Tokyo, the world's largest and ugliest city, is at the same time its most dynamic. Founded in the 15th century by a poetically minded samurai named Do-kan Ota, it wore the name of Edo during its early, bucolic years. Then the populace found its major thrill in watching whales cavort through the clear, blue waters of the bay. But by 1720 Tokyo had attained a population of a million-making it the largest city in the pre-Industrial Revolution world, and whale-watching gave way to more active pursuits. With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Tokyo came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: A Reek of Cement In Fuji's Shadow | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

They also have Henry Albert Bauer, 42, the brightest and ugliest face in baseball, who should be a cinch for Manager of the Year, even if the Orioles lose all their remaining games and wind up 25 games out of first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Potato Face | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...hope you live to be 500, because if anything happens to you, I'll be the ugliest man in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The One Who Beats Them | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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