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...joined them, got into the water. Tom hopped into the water, secured his nose clips in place, and started to help Jennifer with her roll. Ted paddled at the other end. "The trick is to move your arms like a corkscrew," Tom said, holding Jennifer at the wrist and elbow. "That will flip you over...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: One Pink Bikini | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...city, confetti poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link to eager grasps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: REPUBLICANS: The Politics of Safety | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

Unless granted more time, Merrill Lynch and the other respondents have 15 days to file formal answers to the SEC charges. Then an SEC examiner will conduct the public hearings, probably in Manhattan. If he and the commission uphold the accusations, Merrill Lynch could face penalties ranging from a wrist-tap censure to permanent revocation of its license to do business. The institutions would be subject to milder punishment. They could, for example, be barred from operating as broker-dealers, or lose their registration as investment advisers. But, except for Dreyfus Corp., which operates the well-known Dreyfus & Co. brokerage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Where It Really Hurts | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

Deepened Frustration. Four ranking cops were dismissed in a brutality incident last year, but all have been reinstated under the administration of Mayor Loeb. Such wrist-spanking discipline deepens Negro frustration. So does the chest-thumping of Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman, who recently promised an applauding white civic club that if Memphis' Negroes revert to "lawlessness," as he put it, "we'll knock them on their ass." There was further frustration when a bid by Negroes to prevent a sales-tax rise-partly to finance a 50-man increase in the police force-was defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: On the Brink in Memphis | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Midfielder Tom Nicosia, who led Harvard to its first winning lacrosse record in four years, a 9-5 mark, was re-elected captain for the 1969 season. Despite a wrist injury for most of the year, hranked sixth among Crimson scorers with 13 goals and 11 assists...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Ince Captures Ivy League Lacrosse Scoring Crown; Nicosia Is Captain Again | 5/22/1968 | See Source »

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