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Word: railings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France and the U.S. sent helicopters that brought food and medical personnel to isolated areas and flew stranded families out. The U.S. also allotted nearly $1,000,000 and West Germany $2,500,000 in loans and grants. French, Belgian, Dutch and Spanish engineers are already at work rebuilding rail lines and restoring the water system. Russia dispatched $20,000 worth of blankets, food and medicine and a message of sympathy. In all, 24 nations are providing assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tunisia: The Big Flood | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...faces are familiar. He has, at various times in his career, been a Texas convict on the run (The Chase), a Southern rail boss (This Property Is Condemned), a hung-up Hollywood star (Inside Daisy Clover), and the harried young husband in Barefoot in the Park -the kind of guy who looks as if he parts his hair with a carpenter's level. Yet, partly as a result of his own sense of willful independence, major stardom has eluded Robert Redford. At least until now, with two Redford films in the theaters and a third coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: When Things Come Together | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...blinded those it hit and made it very difficult for them to breathe. Many were overcome and collapsed. Many others lay gagging and vomiting over the rail into the underpass...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Police Tear Gas Routs Demonstrators In Skirmish at Department of Justice | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...together. Like, when we were both young, it was refreshing to find somebody who dreamed about females the way I dreamed about females. What's more, Playboy wasn't interested only in sex. It was the sort of magazine you could read on the Long Island Rail Road because it also published stories by legitimate writers. But lately I have been attracted by your siren song (if full-page newspaper ads can be called that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Penthouse v. Playboy | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Very Much Alive. At last year's carefully sanitized rites, the official speaker took the occasion to rail against Israel. Among those upset by the performance was a 33-year-old radio engineer named Boris Kochubiyevsky. He protested: "Here lies a part of the Jewish people." When a bystander said, "Too bad they didn't get the rest," Kochubiyevsky (whose parents died with the other Kiev Jews in 1941) began arguing with him. At one point, he complained that because he was a Jew "no one in this country considers me a fellow Russian." Kochubiyevsky should have limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Postscript to Babi Yar | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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