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...early in 1961, when he met a trim young woman identified only as "Miss X" at the zoo in Sydney's Taronga Park and recruited her as a Soviet agent. She seemed willing, but to test her trustworthiness, he conducted a couple of tests, feeding her money-$952 in all-and handing her minor assignments. Once she had to pick up a small cylinder concealed in a water meter; another time she found one hidden in the iron railing of a stairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Theresa & Miss X | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

...counted, Fullback Taylor, spitting blood from cuts inside his mouth, rumbled through for the score. "That was our only mistake," said the Giants later. Had they stopped Taylor, the result would have been the same. Whenever the Packer attack stalled, Guard Jerry Kramer booted a field goal-three in all-and Green Bay won, 16-7. Then the country boys headed back to Wisconsin, richer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Always When It Counts | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...years, the stringed instruments of the orchestra have changed hardly at all-and many musicians think they should. If there were more instruments in the family, they argue, with fewer gaps in range, modern composers might be tempted to write more music for strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Strads of Montclair | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...Stalin was a revolting tyrant, but that the Communist system permitted and encouraged him to be one. Even "destalinization." suggests Djilas, has not changed the nature of Communism. He writes: "The essence of the problem is not whether this group is better than that, but that they should exist at all-and whether the ideological and political monopoly of a single group in the Soviet Union shall be ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Stalin Still Lives | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all-and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes. The real reason for his rejection, they argued, is the fact that Georgia law automatically cuts off funds for any desegregated school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Break in Georgia | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

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