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...mean you should get into fist fights with local Communists or get up on a soapbox." The volunteer who doesn't live as the native lives will be bounced. "The last thing we want is for Johnny to get money from home, buy himself an air-conditioned Cadillac and drive around Cambodia." Corps members will serve a tour of duty of about two years overseas, will get only a small living allowance but will be able to pick up accumulated pay of $50 to $75 a month when they come home. To the pretty coed who inquired about dating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: How About Urdu? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...wife (Ruby Dee), his twelve-year-old son (Stephen Perry), his mother (Claudia McNeil) and his sister (Diana Sands) are all jammed together in three small rooms, toilet down the hall. Wife and mother do cleaning for white folks, sister is a pre-med student, hero drives a Cadillac for a downtown business executive-and hates it. At night he paces his low-rent prison and snarls at the walls: "I got to change my life! I'm chokin' to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Acute Ghettoitis | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...will include all those things that the hip guy wants to see: bullfights, sports-car rallies-but no bunnies." Somehow, it has occurred to Hefner that he is the Tony Curtis of publishing and he has arranged for Curtis to do the Hugh Hefner story on film. Moving by Cadillac limousine or Mercedes-Benz 300 SL between his office and the house that flesh built, Hefner is actually a living promotion stunt, the most conspicuous playboy of the Middle-Western world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playgrounds: The Boss of Taste City | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...gallon. Other winners in their classes: Corvair Monza for four and six-cylinder compacts with automatic transmission (29.35 m.p.g.), Buick Special for eight-cylinder compacts (25.09), Plymouth Savoy for standard-sized cars (23.15), Ford Fairlane for low-priced V-8s (21.33), Chrysler Newport for medium-priced eights (19.9), and Cadillac for high-priced eights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Arabian Bazaar | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Pudding hustled Miss Fonda and her press agent, Peggy Walters, into a waiting black Cadillac limousine; they were already too late for Miss Fonda's tour of the Loeb, and they didn't want to miss lunch. One airline passenger said to a taxi driver, "Miss Fonda? Where'd she go?" and the cabbie answered, "She just went out the door with some kids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jane Fonda Visits Hasty Pudding; Ceremony Honors 'Woman of Year' | 2/20/1961 | See Source »

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