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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among Uncle Sam's motley assortment of bosom friends, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek has never been known to be red hot for civil liberties and that sort of thing. He is, if only by virtue of his friendliness (or perhaps dependence), a pleasant alternative to Mao TseTung, but the internal affairs of the island of Formosa have occasionally become an embarrassing skeleton in the United States' diplomatic closet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chinese Skeleton | 10/4/1960 | See Source »

Abroad, British beauties, trim of limb, firm of bosom and svelte of hip, have long been in demand - Paris' Folies-Bergere has padded out its chorus with a dozen British imports. As one chauvinistic British lady editor argued: "The Swedes are too pallid, the Spanish girls have long, forbidding noses, and Americans have bread-crumb skins." At home, too, British figures are now coming out from under wraps, as bathing suits, including bikinis, are happily adopted as something to be seen in out of the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Fair Ladies | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...Broadway's ghastliest gobblers. Retreating, she ran a lampshade shop for four years, but was so desperate for the stage that she briefly took a job as the receiving end of a vaudeville comedy routine, in which the comedian drew his laughs mainly by bumping repeatedly into her bosom. Between waitress jobs, Irene kept making the Broadway rounds, scored minor successes on TV, was encouraged enough to begin, at 29, the formal study of her profession as a belated Method convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Perils of Irene | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...welcome to my bosom any bachelor Whose family was highly regarded, But I cannot let my daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMEDIANS: The Meter Man | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Subtly. Kennedy and his aides have planted the hope of the vice-presidency in the bosom of many a man who will be controlling votes at the Democratic Convention. Usual procedure is for Kennedy or an aide-often Brother Bob or Ted-to huddle with a hopeful and then analyze the situation. The analysis is penetrating, and the conclusion, though unspoken, is inescapable: the listener has just the right qualities, and, what is more, Jack likes him. Since almost any respectable, non-Irish, non-Eastern non-Catholic has the basic qualities, the field is extensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kennedy's Veeps | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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