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Rescued from the unhallowed earth, the bodies were removed, placed in coffins and carried back to the family vault at Phu-cam, while 75.000 Vietnamese watched in awed silence. "His spirit infuses our people during this renaissance of independence," said Ngo Dinh Diem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Wanderer's Rest | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...North Phil adelphia neighborhood known as Nicetown, where he was born 34 years ago. From his Sicilian father, piano-legged Roy inherited his proportions and a capacity for enjoying hard work. While he supported a wife and five hungry kids on the pro ceeds of a vegetable wagon. John Cam panella still managed to save enough cash to chip in with his brothers and open a chain of neighborhood groceries. From his Negro mother. Roy learned piety. Al though his father was a Roman Catholic, his mother took him to Baptist church, raised him on the precepts of the 23rd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Man from Nicetown | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...wear a coonskin cap, but somehow he manages to give the impression that he was and does." Some of Republican Hopkins' support ers enthusiastically rushed off in the wrong direction, however, creating a rus tic caricature of a campaign around his homespun look. Ten teams of G.O.P. cam paign workers lined up along street curbs to display rhymed signs advertising Sam Hopkins, like Burma-Shave. An octette of Republican ladies, wearing coonskin caps, trooped around town chanting a six-stanza ode to Sam Hopkins, written to the tune of Davy Crockett. Sample stanza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Big-Leaguer | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Then the Red Button. Sirens echo over the desert, and, all alone, Graves makes the last decision. He gives the word to push the red button. Machines take over. A cam closes a switch and power is fed to cameras, test instruments and power plants. Red and green lights on the control panel trace the action from sequence to sequence. Nothing is left to human error. Even the voice that intones the final count over the loudspeakers on Yucca Flat has been recorded on a tape that cannot blow its lines from human emotion. Electric current travels a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Gives the Word | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Cam Mia, with a vocal by Johnny Amoroso. The soupy melody is currently the No. 2 hit in Britain. Said Ackerman: "A lot of squares will think this is an immortal work." But apparently not enough: turned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Pick Winners | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

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