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Despite the overwhelming 372-to-62 vote in the House of Commons, many Britons were deeply disturbed by the racist implications of the bill and by the first restrictions on the unchallenged right, tracing back to Magna Carta, of all British citizens to enter the home country at will. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Closing the Gate | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Blackout. Last week Kaunda's pleas for British troops carried a new urgency. A narrowly averted incident on the border with Rhodesia led him to pull his own small army back to Lusaka to avoid an accidental clash. In the rail center of Livingstone, the town's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: The Shortened Fuse | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Tilt Test. Among the most encouraging postflight medical findings was the almost total absence of any symptoms of orthostatic hypotension-a condition that could result from weightlessness and lead to an increase in the heart rate, coupled with a sharp drop in blood pressure. Doctors have always feared that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Man Is Moon-Rated | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

Still under 30, Mason becomes "the solemn apostle of the groin." tours Europe with a raft of erotica, cases of twelve-year-old Scotch and a pneumatic mistress named Rosemarie ("that great walking Beautyrest of a woman"). When he is not blacking Rosemarie's eyes, Mason likes to pontificate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empty Soul Blues | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

The sculptures of Gandhara-a name that had long since vanished from the map-lay for centuries in forgotten ruins. It was not until the 1920s, when the great city of Taxila was excavated, that the happy fusion of East and West was generally recognized. Until then, Gandhara's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Buddha in a Toga | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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