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As a poor boy from Hepzibah (pop. 400), W. Va., Samuel Desist had every reason to live down to his patronym. But, setting his sights on an Army career, he enlisted and persisted. By 1962, when he was 39, Sam Desist wore a major's gold oak leaf and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Stupefying Sam | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

At the same time, society firmly kept the young in their place. In times when life as well as education was far shorter than today, they often made history at an age when the modern young are still working for their degrees; Edward the Black Prince was 16 when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON NOT LOSING ONE'S COOL ABOUT THE YOUNG | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

Three-Way Love Affair. Born in the Loire Valley near Orléans, Gaudier was a descendant of masons and stone carvers who had worked on the Chartres Cathedral. He began drawing in early childhood, did so brilliantly that at 14 he won a scholarship to London. Two years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: An Illustrious Unknown | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

When the opposition in Parliament last week urged a vote of no confidence against him, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri took it calmly. He said, "If all the people around me talk highly of me, my feet will not remain on the ground, and I will not know my mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Sleepy Country | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

Glueck never learned to like a mili tary escort, but he made the best of the situation by picking his guards from the Israeli army's large supply of passionate amateur archaeologists. From the first, his survey showed what he had hoped: that the Negev had been inhabited at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Shards of History | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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