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...Neither Rusk nor his adversaries, who now dominate the 19-man committee, had new ideas to offer. The handful of members who still support the Administration could do little more than deal in cliches-including the threat of "monolithic" Communism as cold as the marble that lines the hearing chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress: Standoff | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...rights bill was a relatively modest measure designed to protect Negroes and civil rights workers engaged in such civic activities as registering to vote and performing jury duties. In the Senate, however, the bill underwent almost alchemistic changes. All but assured of final passage this week in the upper chamber, the measure could become a legislative landmark in the Negro's progress toward genuinely equal citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: Legislative Alchemy | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Club 47 is the home of many great fold stars. Joan Baez, the Chamber Brothers Richie Havens, and the Charles River Valley Boys got their start here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $4000 in Debt, Club 47 Closing Doors April 27 | 3/11/1968 | See Source »

...enslaved and converted at gunpoint. Indian artisans were appalled by the viceroy's cruelty, but they were thankful for the priests' ministrations. They embraced the conquerors' faith with fervor. They reared churches of baroque magnificence, carved passion figures of harrowing pathos. Delicately they embellished icons and chamber pots alike with the gold once sacred to the sun god and silver that once glittered in Cuzco's temple of the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafts: Half-Breed Brilliance | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...touch with the changing political style that he did not even suspect a dangerous parallel when he saw one-the American Revolution. While Marie Antoinette gushed about "our good republicans, our good Americans," Louis, it is said, made a gift of a Sevres chamber pot with Benjamin Franklin's likeness on the base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of a Style | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

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