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...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cruelest Island | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...course "at least 200 times" before. Winner of 33 tournaments, including the 1960 U.S. Open and last year's British Open, golf's reigning king was having his best year. With $60,331 already in the bank, he was-and still is-a good bet to smash his alltime money-winning record of $75,262, set in 1960. Having won his third Masters title in April, he now had visions of a one-year "grand slam," winning all four of pro golf's major championships-Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and Professional Golfers' Association. Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Prodigious Prodigy | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...brick Bushnell Memorial Hall, delegates fidgeted and fussed. At 1:34 in the morning, after 10 hr. and 49 min. and eight roll calls, Connecticut Republicans finally selected Insurance Executive John Alsop as their candidate for Governor. Next day, tired and irritable, they took just one decisive muster to smash the comeback attempt of former Governor-Diplomat John Davis Lodge, who wanted to be their nominee for the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Pretty Good Patcher | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...always fear unloaded rifles. They used them to smash heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From a Hollow Eye | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Scott recently staged a smash-hit "New Deal Assembly" at Fieldston, complete with soup kitchen, union songs and F.D.R. speeches. In other years, he has done as much for the Civil and Revolutionary wars. Scott is perhaps the leading practitioner of the most exciting new art in U.S. high school history teaching-throwing away textbooks and going to original sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Present of the Past | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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