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Knights with Armor. Pink-cheeked General Phao invested his top lieutenants as "knights." The knights and all their lesser cops survived charge after charge of corruption and opium smuggling, activities which got particularly careful coverage in Marshal Sarit's own personal chain of newspapers, while Marshal Sarit's commercial connections were discussed in the columns of General Phao's papers. The activities of both Phao and Sarit, in turn, were dutifully reported by Premier Pibul's string of newspapers, and with this delicate system of checks and balances, Thailand's government has survived an impressive...
...other bloody episodes of the anti-Batista war, the Castro men had shown plenty of nerve but little coordination. But by proving he could subvert Batista's well-fed, well-trained military, Castro had punched a worrisome hole in the dictator's armor...
Bullets & Laughter. At the height of the fighting, Ned Kelly, wearing his 94-lb. suit of homemade armor, suddenly appeared in the rear of the police lines. A contemporary newspaper account describes the scene: "Nine police joined in the conflict and fired point-blank at Kelly. It was apparent that many of the shots hit him, yet he always recovered himself, and tapping his breast, laughed derisively at his opponents as he coolly returned the fire." After half an hour of this strange battle, a police bullet found Kelly's unprotected legs and felled him, the only member...
Artist Boris Artzybasheff has a cool, ex-machine gunner's eye that can ruffle even the armor of a battleship, and has. With a knack for spotting an ogle where an I-beam ought to be, Artzy has been doing covers for TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations...
...high drama a breathless hush pervades the air of Poussin's painting. The artist's delight was in the spacious landscape, towering Alban hills, the pleasant villa under blue skies and the rich glitter of jewels and armor. The painting keys perfectly to Poussin's own view of himself: "My natural disposition forces me to seek and cherish orderly things, avoiding confusion which is as contrary to my nature as is light to obscure gloom...