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Vital Stake. Seldom had the winds of war blown about such artless heads. But the danger was nonetheless clear and present. Six years of Pathet Lao insurrection had kept the countryside in turmoil, and had thus made Laos a corridor through which North Viet Nam moved men and supplies to support its guerrillas operating in South Viet Nam. This was a stake that the Communists were not prepared to lose. The Russian news agency Tass warned darkly that U.S. "intervention" could lead to "a second Korea." With the Russians supplying one side and the U.S. the other, the possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Shaky Rule | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Songs and Fun with the Baby Sitters (Vanguard). This winning semipro quartet gives one the sensation of visiting with rather than listening to. Giving off an air of artless improvisation, they intertwine pretend games, traditional ballads and "activity songs." Low on actorish gloss, the Baby Sitters are as soft sell as a lullaby and just about perfect for the just-out-of-the-nursery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kidiscography, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...book is not always interesting to others because its author is interesting to herself. Lady Diana Cooper escapes these dangers. From the first volume of her three-decker autobiography, The Rainbow Comes and Goes (TIME, Oct. 27, 1958), it was clear that Lady Diana is a natural if artless self-historian. Moreover, she has the great advantage that almost every one-she knows is Someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Portrait of a Lady | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Weddings and Babies. The personal hell of a small-time photographer torn between his mother and his mistress is filmed to artless, disheveled perfection by Independent Producer Morris Engel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...Myhers no less than in the immigrant woman, Mrs. Barile, who was discovered sitting on her front steps on Sullivan Street few days after shooting started, and who died without seeing the finished film. Real life again and again galvanizes the spectator with its unreasonable significance, disheveled perfection, artless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1960 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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