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...good show-for a while at least. The fighting raged back and forth across the broad lawns of the U.S. Consulate in Stanleyville. From the windows of the long, low, white building on the river bank, Consul Michael P. E. Hoyt had a ringside view. A burly, cigar-chomping Chicagoan of 34, Hoyt calmly stood his ground and flashed progress reports back to Leopoldville on his single sideband radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: That Man, C'est Moi | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Some Under the Ground. There are the tall, serious Americans. At Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, a line of UH-1B "Huey" choppers, cigar-chomping U.S. Army pilots at the controls, shatters the morning calm with a roar of cranked-up motors and the whip-whip-whip of whirling rotors. In Quang Due province, the local American adviser, a Negro captain, jounces along a red-dust path in his familiar Jeep, packing a .45 on his hip and speaking Vietnamese with a Basin Street beat. In a sandbagged patrol base in Binh Duong province, a U.S. captain sprawls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Toward the Showdown? | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...cigar-shaped stubs of corn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems in the Summer School Poetry Contest | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...GENERAL CIGAR. A short, stand-up show best seen with the kids down front. A black-tied magician cuts girls in half and puts them back together again, levitates them until they disappear into thin air, then makes them pop out of empty boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 31, 1964 | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...After some of the things that have been going on," said Erhard, grimly puffing a thick cigar, "I thought it would be useful for us to get together." Several cigars and 90 minutes later, Adenauer more or less meekly picked up the phone and called his principal ally, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, advising him to do nothing that would aggravate the disunity of their party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: At Last, Clearly in Charge | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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