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...proud, solemn black men advanced through the murmuring chamber to take their new-won seats. Carrying themselves with graven dignity, often combining ritual facial scars with impeccable European manners, they came from lands of jungle and desert whose very names were scarcely known to the West-Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Upper Volta. The headlines went to Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. But in the sweep of history, the 15th U.N. Assembly might be regarded as the time of the Africans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Time of the Africans | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...fidgeted with his cap, the president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce presented an inscribed Paul Revere bowl to him, and Gowdy, Red Sox announcer, called the Splinter the greatest hitter in baseball--"simply a champion...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, ROBERT K. SMITH | Title: Boston Bids Farewell To Ted, Who Homers In Last Appearance | 9/29/1960 | See Source »

...GREAT CHAMBER MUSIC, produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Programs for the Week | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...surrounded her. By kerosene lamp in her 4-ft. by 12-ft. shack, she wrote down the vivid details of slum life, filling 26 notebooks gleaned from trash piles. To her neighbors, this seemed putting on airs. While Carolina was out tramping streets, one slattern would regularly empty her chamber pot into Carolina's window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Life in the Garbage Room | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...brainchild, is no more; he can hardly get any inventing done today for all the eager customers beating a pathway to his door, or corporations trying to hire him. Last week in Los Angeles, as in many another U.S. city, a task force set up by the Chamber of Commerce was out hunting down new inventions, forearmed with a list of manufacturers anxious for new products. This week You and Your Big Ideas, a television show that invites little-known inventors to demonstrate their wares and provides a panel of experts to evaluate them, begins its new season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Prometheus Unbound | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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