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...brought Negroes in to register. In Mississippi's Oktibbeha County, a Negro woman who asked the sheriff for directions to the courthouse was gruffly told, "We don't let Nigras vote here." The locked door to the registrar's office in Alabama's Lee County bore the sign "Back Sept.1," and the office in Mississippi's Rankin County was closed because the circuit clerk has been "ill." In some counties, local registrars processed whites ahead of Negroes, then slowed to a snail's pace. In others, they let Negroes through the door only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Squeezing the Trigger | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...poor fellow keels over. On the other hand, some of her visions are quite exalted. She has announced that a child was born in Egypt in 1962 who is destined to be the "greatest power for world good since the coming of Christ." But she did not say who bore the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punditry: Seer in Washington | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...flurry of phone calls from hormone-hunting wives flooded New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center last year, when word got out that of 21 women treated there, 15 became pregnant. The seven who completed their pregnancies bore three single babies, three sets of twins and one set of quads (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gynecology: The Multiple-Birth Hormone | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...profound melancholy the others are constantly pointing out. His philosophy comes out flat; if there is one scene in the play that is disastrously bad it is his soliloquy early in Act II, where, instead of protest at a wasted life we hear the grumbling complaints of a bore...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Uncle Vanya | 7/22/1965 | See Source »

...aimed at the subconscious, and the audience often finds itself laughing in spite of itself. Events move so quickly that control becomes impossible. Halfway through you will either be so thoroughly reconditioned that anything, 'no matter how perverted, will seem funny, or you will find the film a horrid bore. But the very fact that new kinds of responses are required to fully enjoy Pussycat, ranging from vicarious indulgence to an informed recognition of the parodies, indicates that Pussycat is a new breed of film...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: What's New, Pussycat? | 7/22/1965 | See Source »

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