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After Iran would come Turkey, Cyprus, Greece and Italy. So far, the only thing Lyndon had failed to do was to invite another camel driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: On the Way with LBJ. | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...long after the Civil War, two intolerable improprieties came to the notice of U.S. Victorians. One was a minor mountain in north-central Vermont, which a less delicate age had named Camel's Rump. The other was a literary movement, which called itself realism, whose adherents proclaimed their intent to describe the world as it really was. The prudes dealt easily enough with the mountain; it became, and still remains. Camel's Hump. They had more trouble with the literary movement. For decades it was a standoff; realism did not disappear, but neither were the early realists (themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Reticent Realist | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...same." Sellers finally comprehends. Putting up his brains, trimming his beard, he pursues what he can now clearly see is the good life. He overpowers the crook he works for and spirals upward, swiftly becoming an international financier, running stupendous treasuries through his fingers like sand. The camel jumps gracefully through the eye of the needle into the sheer heaven of riches on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Life is an Auction | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...most part, however, tobacco-men profess confidence that the cigarette habit will not lose its hold on the public. The industry's largest producer, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) is test-marketing in Southern California, New England and North Carolina a new king-size nonfilter cigarette called Brandon, which ambitiously aims to displace American Tobacco Co.'s Pall Mall as the top individual seller. And Philip Morris President Joseph F. Cullman 3rd gave some hint of how the industry hopes to fight the medical issue. He told his company's stockholders last week that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: Tobacco's Pack of Troubles | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Gentlemen, the shapka is not only Russian, but also the national headgear of Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Pakistan it is known as the "Jinnah Cap" after Pakistan's founder, who made it a national trade mark. The Camel Driver from Pakistan was seen in it during his U.S. tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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