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ILLINOIS. Honest Abe sits somber and silent in a high-back chair, rises, bows, and delivers a 10-min. oration. Disney's Lincoln is a little stolid, but then he is stuffed with things like steel, air tubes and hydraulic valves.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: PAVILIONS | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Made-in-U.S. Look. Both boats were designed by Britain's David Boyd, whose first twelve was Sceptre. But Boyd thinks he has learned about blue-water sailing since then. Gone are Sceptre's tubby lines; the new boats have a swift, made-in-U.S. look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yachting: For Country & for Mug | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Flaksman's performance suggested a Jaguar sports car confined to Boston traffic: though it was obvious that he was good, it was hard to tell what he could do, because of what he had to play. Conforming with the Romantic arrangement of the Vivaldi, he obviously tried for as rich...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Swoboda's Last HRO Concert | 5/4/1964 | See Source »

Making the point in music required a storm of inventiveness, and Gerhard, 67, proved himself to be a resourceful composer. Violin bows drawn across cymbals' edges make their pale, tortured protest as they create an eerie, shimmering climate of fear. A nail file raked across piano strings evokes wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oratorios: The Meaning of the Rats | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

Last week the bloody back-and-forth took on a new dimension. Down from the scrub-grown hills of India's mineral-rich Bihar state swarmed hordes of fierce Adivasis (literally, aborigines) armed with bows and arrows. Recent converts to Christianity, but not weaned from their fierce ways, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Feeling Is Fatal | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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