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...warn of the approach of the President's speeding caravan. Police guessed that the charge had been buried for days, failed to go off because rain had dampened its mechanism. Implicated in the plot was a ragtag crowd that included an insurance salesman from Sèvres, a buxom, blonde vaudeville magician who lived with a houseful of cats, dogs and parrots, a 45-year-old woman who sold string, and a thin, nervous onetime radio announcer, Martial de Villemandy, who was quickly arrested at a village bistro not far from the scene of the crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: After the Plot | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...neighborhood bar, the buxom waitress first tried Russian, then German on the foreign visitor. "American? Don't talk politics with my customers. They're too drunk to know what they're saying, and there's an F.DJ. [Free German Youth] in the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Over there | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

...Lausanne suburb, is rated "an extremely bright" second grader, lives with his three older half sisters. Commuting between his children and Rome, Farouk is now trying to be a model papa. Always a nonsmoking teetotaler, he has even given up his night life, permits himself only one conspicuous indulgence: buxom, blonde Irma Capece Minuto, his on-again-off-again sweetheart, whom Farouk may marry some time. Near Farouk's old capital, Cairo, the son of another dejobbed African leader was studying diligently at French and Arabic. The student: Patrice Lumumba Jr., son of the Congo's on-again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...sent up for micrometeorite and magnetic studies, sniffing out information in space"; a shutter-ready, lens-eyed Tiros, taking pictures of the earth's cloud cover; a svelte medicine man of an Explorer I, using "a thermometer and stethoscope, since it measures temperature and cosmic rays"; a buxom flapper of a Pioneer V, absorbing a last swift kick from its booster rocket; an Explorer VII counting cosmic rays with a Geiger counter; and a loudmouthed, loudspeaker-toting Transit iB, sending back navigational signals. All of the other satellites shown on the cover have, in Artzy's unique style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...singers now in the Met's excellent chorus rarely falter, but when one does, standard procedure is to look for a cue from a buxom, 65-year-old mezzo-soprano named Marguerite Belleri. Says she: "If I cry, they cry. If I smile or attack, they do it, too." Last week, the company's senior chorister was honored for her 50th year with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fifty Years at the Met | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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