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Although Parker gave PT-credit for the freshman ping-pong tournament, he refused the Gargoyle tiddly-wink team similar recognition. He also balked when a freshman expressed interest in a 100-mile run sponsored by the YMCA...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Freshman PT Requirement -- Why Bother? | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...been growing mushrooms in the boiler room, and near curtain's drop they sprout hallucinogenic caps. Brose munches on one and can see Mrs. Murray naked. She flees, trying desperately to shield herself with her personnel folder. "D'you like happy endings?" says Brose with a happy wink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bim Bom Ban Bang On | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...three Phantoms were flying northwest, into the evening sun, escorting a slow, radar-laden RB-66 reconnaissance bomber close to the Red Chinese border. To Major Wilbur R. Dudley, 34, of Alamogordo, N. Mex., the first hint of trouble was the wink of cannon fire beneath his Phantom fighter. It came from four "silver, swept-wing and well-kept aircraft"-Communist MIG-17s, presumably Chinese. "I broke to the right," recalled Dudley after last week's action, "and pickled [dropped] my fuel tanks, and then I came up on this MIG just as it was making a firing pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Air, Water, Nuts & Bolts | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...first Allied offi cer to enter the Louvre upon the liberation of Paris. As director of the Met, he relished prowling galleries for finds, made auction history when he bought Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for a record $2,300,000 with a wink. Last March he went to London to watch the bidding for St. George and the Dragon, was only momentarily crestfallen when it went to the National Gallery; his real game in Europe was a much bigger, and still unconsummated purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Double Loss | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...black and white stripes, checks, or combinations of both. Just for fun, some glasses come armed with roll-up awnings and huge fake eyelashes; others sport spectacular papier-mâché designs glued on to the frames; still others have movable lenses that lift up into a coy wink. In Riviera's new one-way mirror models, the lenses also are decorated; the wearer looks out through a patterned blur, the onlooker is greeted with his own checkered reflection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Shadow of Her Smile | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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