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...accident rate is lower on California's roaring freeways than at the low speeds of snaking mountain roads or intersections of Los Angeles' labyrinthine streets. In New York City, the very density of traffic slows cycles to a crawl and lowers the accident rate still further. Wet pavements are even worse on two wheels than on four: San Francisco makes its motorcycle cops dismount and climb into cars when it rains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidents: Mayhem on Motorcycles | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Scatological Satires. But when it comes to sheer shock value, no one can match the Fugs. The Fugs have no use for innuendo: they lay it right on the line. While such ditties as Wet Dream over You and Group Grope (which features two simulated orgasms) are obvious even to the grown-up squares, the Fugs' scatological satires have gained a steadily growing audience on the college campuses. Says Chief Fug Ed Sanders: "There are too many taboos in society, and we want to eliminate them. Being a Fug is better than being on a peace walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Going to Pot | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...stays right behind him all the way in a green Jaguar, which is tailed, in turn, by a furtive Austin-Healey carrying members of a rival gang. Always mirthful if not memorable, and photographed in crisp showroom color, The Sucker is funniest on side excursions, particularly a sopping wet and agreeably ribald robbers-and-robbers chase among the stony nudes of the Tivoli fountains near Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Road Runners | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...mother bear and her cubs cup the air in their paws, warily sniffing the scent of a passing boat. Schools of porpoises and killer whales gambol in the offshore depths. From dense, wet cedar trees comes the heavy smell of primeval forest as the boat moves past the maze of islands, deep-cut fjords and ice-hung mountains that make up British Columbia's spectacular coastline. Last week, with the inauguration of the new $7,000,000 Queen of Prince Rupert car ferry, the whole coastline became readily accessible for the first time to U.S. tourists bound for Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: By Boat to Alaska | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard Water Polo Club, wet off a 2-4 season, has elected Richard Smith '67 of Kirkland House and Springfield, Ohio, president for next year; Jan Rus '69, of Matthews Hall and La Hambra, Cal. vice-president; James Babcock '67 of Kirkland House and Minneapolis, Minn. treasurer; and Bruce Shore, lecturer on Astronomy secretary. This year the waterballers topped Brooklyn Polytech, 12-7, and M.I.T., 9-5, but drowned under Queens, Army, Fordham, and St. Francis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Polo | 5/17/1966 | See Source »

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