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...white people of the South should take Martin Luther King Jr. to their bosom; without his leadership, the emotional racists, black and white, might have directed the revolution of 1963 to a much more violent and tragic conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1964 | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...woman of extraordinary complexity. She fights like a man, and swears and drinks like one too. Her love affairs are legion; yet in her ample bosom, religion burns with a white flame. She thrives on a noisy 15-hour workday. In Bolivia, she is called "half-breed"; in Paraguay, "burro rider"; in Haiti, "Madame Sarah." Everyone knows her as the market woman, the indispensable harridan of commerce who easily ranks as the No. 1 retailer to Latin America's lower classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Matriarchs of the Market | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...Christmas Day, Burton and his fiancee passed out some $500 worth of toys to the children of Puerto Vallarta. But most of the day Burton spent away from the public eye, in the bosom of his new family: Elizabeth's forever proud and beaming mother, and her father (whose usual expression is uncertainty), and her brother, and her sister-in-law, and her two little boys by Michael Wilding, and her little girl by Mike Todd, and the little German girl she adopted two years ago, and Taffy, her little yipping Sealyham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Decorum | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...judge and his artless encourage of wig-wearing half-wits, and the lecherous count hardly evoke respect for the leaders of the old monarchy. They all get their clothes back, finally, with a dab of cau de cologne, but the audience doesn't forget the bandy legs and buttressed bosom it has seen...

Author: By Fitzhugh S. M. mullan, | Title: Aristocratic Acrobatics | 10/24/1963 | See Source »

...money in bringing her appearance to the pitch of perfection. Eyes were carefully shaded with "kohl" (antimony), skins painted and bodies held taut and provocative within the stresses of the short little kilts and tightly fitted "matari" (little short jackets designed to display the lower half of the bosom...

Author: By David J.M. Muffett, | Title: Reflections on a Harvard Tribal Gathering | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

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