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...cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits no minors to race under its aegis, suspended Lance upon learning that he had fibbed about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...Bonn, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who has pledged to field three of seven promised NATO divisions this summer, last week showed off the new German uniforms, almost identical with the army and Luftwaffe uniforms of World War II .The German army boot was back too, but this time with a difference. "Gentlemen," grinned Strauss to an audience assembled to view the new uniforms, "these boots do not permit heel-clicking or the reverberating sound of marching. These boots are fitted with demokratisch-bürgerliche Gummisohlen [democratic civilian rubber soles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Cutback | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Shaped like a thousand-mile boot lying on its side, with Jamaica at the top, the Leeward Islands at the heel. Trinidad at the toe, The West Indies unites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: Birth of a Nation | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

George Carens, of the Traveler, claimed "sampling reaction leads me to the conclusion that Harvard graduates are eternal optimists. There is general unanimity that the sons of Jawn Haw-vud are facing their greatest opportunity in years to pull themselves up by the boot-straps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Papers See Error in Firing Jordan | 1/4/1957 | See Source »

...South Side, a Hungarian carpenter named Felix, his wife and two children settled down in a small apartment furnished by friends and relatives. Soon Felix got a job in a furniture factory at $1.25 an hour. Like many of the new immigrants, the couple still so strongly showed the boot marks of Soviet terror that they could not shake off their tenseness or wariness, kept their window blinds drawn, reporters at arm's length. Said a Hungarian friend, who arrived in the U.S. in 1948: "It takes about two years to realize what America is like. Not the things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Safe Haven | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

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