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While the tour members reminisced, Tun Razak was attending another party, this one in honor of his 47th birthday. There, the most impressive of the gifts Tun received was an announcement by the Tunku reiterating his determination not to stand for office after the next election - which leaves Tun Razak heir to the premiership. Next day Tun Razak got another gift: a biography of Winston Churchill. The life story of the great British statesman was given to the Malaysian statesman by Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 21, 1969 | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Once formidable enough to blast Bonanza from its No. 1 Sunday perch, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour has recently drifted as low as 47th on the Neilsen charts. Though NBC's front-running Laugh-In continues to get out spoken and risque material past its own censors, the Smothers say that often they are required to snip even the mildest material. On the disputed program, for example, Folk Singer Joan Baez dedicated a song to her husband, a convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censorship: The Brothers' Troubles | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Jimmy Shine--A very slight sketch by Murray Schisgal made quite pleasant by Dustin Hoffman's performance in the title role and some songs by John Sebastian. At the BROOKS ATKINSON, W. 47th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas in New York: The Plays to See | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Guard has been given permission to bivouac troops in two parks near the hall and in five public high schools. Halsted Street, which runs along the east side of the amphitheatre, will be accessible only to special buses for a mile. Cross streets leading into it, from 39th to 47th Streets, will be closed to regular traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STALAG '68 | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...July sun was scarcely above the Manhattan rooftops when the mob began pouring out of the decaying tenements on the Lower East Side-ragged, shouting, weaponed with sticks, iron bars and brickbats. By midmorning, the crowd had moved across Broadway, filled Eighth and Ninth Avenues, descended on the 47th Street Army draft-board headquarters and set it afire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Riot: 1863 | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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