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...Foreign Office, began publication of excerpts from his forthcoming book, The Inner Circle. The first: an eyewitness account of the momentous meeting of the European powers at Munich in September 1938. Kirkpatrick was then first secretary of the British embassy in Berlin, and delegated to help Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain deal with Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Munich Revisited | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...After a year of barnstorming with the Harlem Globetrotters, towering (7 ft. 2 in.) Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain,22, two-time All-America at the University of Kansas (1957, 1958), signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Association. His salary-more than $30,000-makes Chamberlain the highest-paid player in N.B.A. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...often bumbled in diplomacy; of a heart attack; in London. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he engineered with wily French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the notorious pact that surrendered a fifth of besieged Ethiopia to Mussolini. Forced by public outrage to resign, he bounced back to office under Neville Chamberlain, backed Chamberlain's Munich appeasement because he felt it would intimidate Russia. "He passes," someone said, "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Ruch '59 of Eliot House, received the Harvard Motor Sports Club Driver's Championship trophy. Ruch amassed a total of 156 points in ice trials, rallies, and gymkhanas to take a substantial lead of 20 points over second place John Welch '59 of Dunster House, and third place Mike Chamberlain '59 of Kirkland House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruch Takes Trophy For Leading Driver | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

...satisfied with watching it on television. Nor did those present see much of the actual ceremony. Led by the white-robed Chief Ritualist, the little wedding procession quickly disappeared within the shrine. Crown Prince Akihito, wearing his saffron-yellow robes, was attended only by his grand chamberlain, a trainbearer, a Shinto priest, and another chamberlain carrying the 700-year-old sword, the symbol of Akihito's royal rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Prince Takes a Bride | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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