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John Foster Dulles was there. Foster used to chew his cud, and he had a tic over his eye. I can see him now as he sat back and said, "But anyone who claws his way to the top in that Soviet jungle will prove formidable." As it turned out, Khrushchev was by far the most intelligent, imaginative and creative Soviet leader I've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We in the U.S. Are Suckers for Style | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...puzzles them how a complex and little-regulated society can maintain such a high level of production, efficiency and technological innovation. Many are inclined toward the fantastic notion that there must be a secret control center somewhere in the U.S. They continue to chew on Lenin's dogma that bourgeois governments are just the "servants" of monopoly capital. Is that not the secret control center? The great gap in Soviet understanding of U.S. policies and practices sometimes means that even experienced message carriers and advisers of the Politburo like Anatoly Dobrynin, the longtime Ambassador in Washington, do not necessarily convey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America the Baffling: How the Soviets See It | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Junior Larry Scott, the Crimson's top player, took the first set against All-American Chew Kennedy but came up short, falling in the next two sets, 6-1, 6-3. "I played him last year and got beaten pretty badly," said Scott. "I played a much better game this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Upset No. 7 Trinity In Louisville Tournament | 2/1/1985 | See Source »

...release of Anatoly Koryagin, a Soviet psychiatrist, who has been sentenced to 12 years in fail and internal exile for publicly criticizing the political use of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He has been officially stripped of his psychiatric degree, physically beaten, and is now unable to chew or swallow food as a result of a hunger strike which he initiated in January of 1983 protesting his arrest...

Author: By David W. Bliss, | Title: Doing Right, Right | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...cuts a strikingly distinctive figure. Generally tall and strapping, he sports a thick beard and, over his uncut hair, a turban wrapped of 15 ft. of elegantly coiled and pleated cloth. He takes as one of his names "Singh" (lion). He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lions of Punjab | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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