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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, at 5:17 a.m., the earthquake struck Skoplje, jarring awake its 170,000 inhabitants. Pilot Blagojevic felt the first shock and rushed to the window. "The whole railway station folded in on itself," he recalls, "and the wreckage covered a train that was pulling into the station. For endless seconds you could hear only the thunder of collapsing buildings. In the room next to mine a woman was screaming for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Trembling Dawn | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...industry has sold educators the idea that air conditioning makes classrooms usable the year round, and can cut construction bills by reducing window space. A Florida school board found that it cost $767 per pupil to put up a non-cooled school v. $751 for a cooled school. Manhattan is building an air-conditioned and windowless school in Harlem in hopes of cutting losses from windows smashed by vandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: The Cool Age | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...getting the best of both reputations. Like today's action painters, he felt that a painting had a life of its own and that the artist "must always take into account improvisation." But if a work of art was an object with independent life, it was also a window into the heart. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "The smile of a dying man! The look in the mother's eyes! The embraces of despair! Precious realm of painting! That silent power that speaks at first only to the eyes and then seizes and captivates every faculty of the soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: He Had a Sun in His Head | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...private bath with your hotel room. Few Europeans regard a bath or shower as a daily necessity." 2) "Try filling up on two or three continental breakfasts in place of eggs and bacon." 3) "Never patronize a restaurant that doesn't display a menu in its window." 4) "Don't leap to find a hotel. Check your bags at the airport or train station while you go out to look . . . Never rent a room sight unseen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Europe Plain & Simple | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

Just for good measure, I'll mention some more incidents. A couple of weeks ago, someone (we don't know who) shot at our office at 504 South Madison. The bullet went through the window on the front door and lodged in the back wall. One of our workers was in the office, but he wasn't hit. Joe Ann Christian, a 15-year old girl who has been arrested 13 times in demonstrations, was recently put through the following ordeals: she was dragged and picked up and dropped several times on the way to the police station, placed behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perdew Tells of Albany Movement; Describes Manhandlings by Police | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

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