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The White House does not talk about it, but President Kennedy's back is still bothering him. Newsmen noticed that while the President was getting off his jet in a recent visit to Columbus, he hung tightly to the ramp railing, quickly lowered himself step by step. Earlier, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Capital Notes: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

They all work smoothly, bending forward from the hips, pulling and not chopping, in long easy strokes. They like best to work up hills, the steeper the better, for it means less back-bending work. And from some immemorial, ingrained habit, we always worked from left to right across the...

Author: By Jack R. Stauder, | Title: Zinacantan, Mexico | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

Above all, Southern Rhodesia's government is showing signs of bending before the suasion of a largely antiracist world. Rising at the annual conference of his powerful United Federal Party, Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead announced that if his party wins the election next year, his government will ban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Rhodesia: How Far We've Come | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

As a screen dramatist, Renoir has few equals. He builds up the character of Batala, the malevolent publisher, through a series of short scenes in his private office. Salesmen, creditors and laundresses come in and out on various errands. Batala mulcts the men and seduces the women again and again...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Le Crime de M. Lange | 10/26/1961 | See Source »

To this reader, his puerile exegeses of such systems of theology, philosophy, epistemology and, for that matter, bath-taking, as he has brought under the batteries of his irredeemably third-class mind bring much the same kind of pain as does unexpectedly bending back a fingernail below the quick.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1961 | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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