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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fester J. Pupous '65 looked out of the window of his third floor single in Winthrop House. The world was bleached gray in the winter twilight. All that moved were the red tail lights on Memorial Drive, racing away from him as fast as they could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Hits Harvard Square | 12/18/1963 | See Source »

...Christmas," barked the man, between snatches of music. "Mer' Christmas." He blocked Fester's way. He put out his cupped hand. Fester ran up the street; it was so cold he needed to run to keep warm. At the corner he looked back and saw no one. Through the window of the Bick a girl with long, straight hair (a swimming instructor in a Dorchester Y) watched him cross Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Hits Harvard Square | 12/18/1963 | See Source »

Symbolic prison bars recur throughout the film, but never in a blatantly intrusive way like the self-conscious symbols of La Dolce Vita. Othello overhears Iago's baiting of Cassio through a barred casement, he looks in upon Desdemona through her leaded window, and finds out the greatness of his guilt behind a barred gate in the castle. His only escape from the cage of his passion is suicide, and one he has stabbed himself with a dagger, he leaves his prison, free to die in the bedroom beside his wife...

Author: By Charles S. Wittman, | Title: Othello | 12/10/1963 | See Source »

...matched the gun. On the floor of the Lincoln, a second matching slug was found. The third was retrieved from the stretcher that carried Kennedy. Ballistic tests proved that Oswald's gun fired the fatal bullets. Oswald's palm prints were found on book cartons near the window, on the wrapping paper that was used for the "window shades," and on the carbine itself. Experts who later test-fired similar carbines agreed that a skilled man could fire such a gun three times in five seconds with practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man Who Killed Kennedy | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...capital's more than 100 Turkish baths, some of the scantily clad masseuses are frequently ready to give extra service. But police so far have merely written the owners suggesting that they remove the locks and window shades from individual compartments. Tokyo also offers 19,000 bars, mostly staffed by hostesses (in some cases, hosts who are only dressed like hostesses). Although prostitution was legally banished in 1958, an estimated 5,000 streetwalkers are still in business, aided by 4,000 inns and flophouses. Similarly unbothered are Tokyo's 34 "guide clubs," which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: How to Keep the Olympics Clean | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

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