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To get it, he hastily promoted Congolese army corporals and sergeants to officer rank, ordered hundreds of his troops into requisitioned Sabena planes to be flown to Luluabourg, deep in Kasai province. "National emergency," explained Army Chief of Staff Colonel Joseph Mobutu, suggesting that it was only an expedition to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: Contact with Reality | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

Just Crazy. The dakkochan is the brainchild of Yoshihiro Suda, 27, planning chief for Japan's toymaking Tsukudaya Co. Last February Suda began experimenting with a U.S. made plastic-and-cardboard eye that appears to wink whenever the angle at which light hits it is changed. Suda placed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Dakkochan Delirium | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

Sir: Since its conception, public education in the U.S. has been criticized, analyzed and enriched. This process is a cherished characteristic of an open society. Throughout the years, value has been placed upon "giving one's best" and "doing a good job." The Communists will not be suppressed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1960 | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Ike himself was well over his peeve by the time he landed in Chicago to take his bows. Again, from hotel and office windows, the confetti poured down in torrents ("It's a different kind; it really sticks," he gasped. "It sticks and it chokes," replied Nixon), and Chicagoans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONVENTION: The New Boss | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

But in the last quarter, archery bored her, and in another she played poor tennis: "Tennis! Oh, forty-love! Well, for your information, they are not batting tennis balls at Cape Canaveral." To Charlene, the school's insistence that physical and mental education count equally seemed an echo of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Connecticut Yankee | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

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