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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin post was obviously a major intelligence center, and last year he was awarded Poland's Commander Cross for outstanding services. Outside the PX last week, he gave up his wife, his 17-month-old son, and the comforts and prestige of a successful diplomatic career for the uncertain life of an exile in the free world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Flight of the Gypsy Baron | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

From the vantage point of a closed circuit television spectator, it seemed uncertain whether Clay had even landed the lightning blow--but then no one had the chance to ask Sonny...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: Clay Beats Liston in First-Round Kayo (Sort of); Fans Chorus 'Fix' After Referee's Unusual Decision | 5/26/1965 | See Source »

...civil war, not a white man's war. Some people try to make us believe that it is a war of national liberation. To say the least, that is a euphemism. Just ask those who live in the so-called liberated territories. They will tell you, in no uncertain terms, that life is miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cheers from a Cheerleader | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...varying upward from 93,000 miles per second. What this means in actual distance Dr. Schmidt is not quite sure. He is certain, however, that they are the most distant objects so far identified, even though man's knowledge of the outer fringes of the universe is too uncertain for making hard and fast measurements. Out among the quasars, space itself may have unfamiliar properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Toward the Edge of the Universe | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...academic community, Bundy said he had supposed that in public service, "a former businessman was not especially accountable to business circles, a man from labor to the unions, or a professor university people. There is no reason why I should be especially accountable you, even on the uncertain assumption that you are truly representative of the academic community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bundy Letter Criticized By Henry Aiken | 5/20/1965 | See Source »

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