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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Letters from an Axman. The Mountbatten investigation was ordered when the Labor government came under at tack after the escape of Soviet Spy George Blake in October. Britain's Victorian prisons were not built for the liberal policies that today allow the inmates wide freedoms. "Most prisoners," said the report, "are kept in buildings that were constructed in the 19th century when, in effect, imprisonment was solitary confinement and all security depended on this fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain, Cuba: Holiday Exodus | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...high-walled villa. Nearly a dozen of his bodyguards have deserted and crossed the border to Sierra Leone to start a new life. His Egyptian wife Fathia, whom he shelved years ago for more comely playmates, has taken refuge in Cairo, refuses to rejoin him or even to allow his three children to visit him. Few visitors bother to call on him. An $18 million frigate that he ordered from a British shipyard in 1964 as a private "command ship" was launched last week on the Clyde River with neither name nor ceremony. Unable to afford such extravagances, Ghana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: On the Beach | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

Kennedy said yesterday that if the bill is passed the governing boards would probably decide to allow graduates of the college to vote in the first Overseers' elections following their graduation...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Harvard Takes Action To Liberalize Voting In Overseer Elections | 1/5/1967 | See Source »

...engine instead of chemical fuel for deep space acceleration, Stewart believes, scientists will be able to launch outer planet probes with rockets as small as the Atlas-Centaur, or send considerably larger payloads aloft with the Saturn 5. Combined with gravity assists from the planets, the ion engines should allow sophisticated unmanned probes to give man a close look at the outer planets, regions outside the solar system - and even the sun itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Timetables for Planetary Tours | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Kansas City's enterprising National Catholic Reporter published a survey of 3,000 U.S. diocesan priests, conducted by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter of Harvard. His finding: 62% of the clergy believed that priests should have the choice of marriage or celibacy; 31% might marry if the church would allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: A Theologian Defects | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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