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Rorimer was not the only one cloaking his intentions in mystery. By chance, Art Dealer Fowles, now 80 and retired, happened by Parke-Bernet, spotted the bust he had bought 45 years before. He decided to buy it for the Metropolitan "so that it would get the glory it deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: The Cinderella Question | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

Consequently, Cavanagh faces easy reelection in November. Last month he received 63.4 per cent of the vote in a 12-man primary. His main opponent, a salesman named Walter Shamie, wants to unleash the police and, despite denials, is obviously bidding for the casual bigot vote. He will probably not...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Crime in the Streets--and City Elections | 10/28/1965 | See Source »

George Papandreou had outfoxed young King Constantine again. For five days the confidence vote raged over the King's third and latest choice as Premier, Elias Tsirimokos, 58, a left-leaning member of ex-Premier Papandreou's Center Union Party who broke away at Constantine's bidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: All the King's Men | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

Yet his followers are generally quick to do the Bung's bidding. In his Anniversary Day speech, Sukarno urged Indonesians to "wage a campaign against Beatle music, cheap literature and crazy dances." In response, a crowd gathered before Djakarta's police headquarters and made a small bonfire of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Down with the Beatles! | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

Say the word Calcutta to most Americans, and they think of saried Indians bathing in the Ganges and sacred cows basking in the middle of dirty thoroughfares. But say Calcutta to the member of a golf club, and he is apt to look nervously to either side and whisper, "Shhhh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Five-Figure Exercise | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

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