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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I heard Fred Schwarz lecture to the students at Seattle University, drumming up recruits for his crusade. From him I heard such astonishing and rubbery statements as: Boris Pasternak was starved to death; he (Schwarz) was for the progressive income tax and therefore not a right-winger; there are three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 23, 1962 | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

The Soviet caviar industry has a persistent problem: too many sturgeons are males, which yield no caviar.† And despite years of effort, no one yet has discovered any way to alter this unproductive balance of nature. But Soviet Biologist Boris Astaurov, an authority on practical sex determination, is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Virgin Sturgeons | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

When he is on the attack, which is most of the time, Menon's expression is ferretlike. Brain surgery last October for a blood clot deprived him of his elaborately curled silver locks, making his looks even fiercer. Though he has no known history of any leg ailment, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MENON'S WAR | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales (Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Actor Karloff, in a voice as rich as a ripe persimmon, unwinds with "infinite resource and sagacity" the mad Kiplingesque logic featuring the rhinoceros with a three-button skin and the Parsee from whose hat the rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alice in Audioland | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

In Moscow, the Warsaw chiller was branded "false and fantastic." However the story really ended, the Politburo is apparently trying hard to prevent the rise of another Beria. It abolished the MVD, freed many of its prisoners, and handed over police functions to a Committee on State Security (KGB), which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: At the Kremlin Corral | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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