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...shouldn't a young man have safe relief from his strong urge to copulate? Why shouldn't young ladies have a few years of courtship-postponing those grim years of dishes and diapers...
...outlook for Harvard wasn't so grim after the first mile, when the team's top five were among the first 150. But the leaders' mile time was a phenomenal 4:15, and before long the Crimson's harriers began to fall back, never to recover...
...sentenced to three years at hard labor for having "distributed fabrications defaming the Soviet state." Among his "fabrications" were two books published only in the West: Involuntary Journey to Siberia, an account of the 18 months he served in exile, and Will The Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, a grim, apocalyptic view of Russia's future (TIME...
...British cousin, was sentenced to 15 months' confinement. Though neither man was known as a far-rightist in his home country, both were arrested in East Berlin last summer for pasting up propaganda posters bearing Nazi swastikas. They joined three other Americans in East Berlin's grim Hohenschoenhausen prison: Jack Strickland, 28, who was sentenced two months ago to four years for alleged border violations and supposedly trying to slip East Germans out of their walled-in country; Lyle Jenkins, 30, who drew 2½ years on similar charges; and Mark Huessy, 21. who is serving the longest...
...After World War II, our scarecrows were grim and military," he says. "Many wore steel helmets and discarded uniforms." Then came an "American period"-mechanized scarecrows with waving arms affixed to crude clockwork. Now that Japan is more affluent, scarecrows are more elaborate. Some wear business suits; others, inspired by TV films, simulate fierce samurai warriors and angry student demonstrators...