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...only had Che done his best to steal the spotlight at the Alliance for Progress conference, but he managed to sow sweet confusion at every step along the road home, leaving behind one government toppled and another muttering dark thoughts. He even found a way to dangle a coexistence cigar before the U.S. White House and depart having given that implacable foe something to think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Have an Exploding Cigar | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...four soldiers, two merit praise: Arthur Amsie's Polly Baker, growly, cigar-chomping, and shrewd, and Paul Marstow's (where would this summer's company have been without him?) Jeriah in the unfortunate temple robber betrayed by his mates. Tom Griffin is another one of the four; someday, perhaps, I will be able to understand what he is saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Man's A Man | 8/10/1961 | See Source »

...that could be Mammoth Cave swallowing the Parthenon of Nashville, the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn, last week opened a production of Troilus and Cressida. But what ho? There, on a camp stool, sat mighty Agamemnon, stroking his beard, smoking a ten-inch cigar, wearing the uniform of a Union general and looking for all the world like an actor dressed up to play Ulysses S. Grant. There too was doddering old Nestor, also wearing the blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Straw Hat: Vicksburg-on-Avon | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...grill, folding toilet ($11.95) and canvas bathtub ($17.50). If the car battery is in good shape, the camper can also load up a small refrigerator, tent heater, fluorescent lamp, electric smoker for chicken, and coffee maker-all of which can be wired like an umbilical cord into the dashboard cigar lighter, a versatile instrument that can do almost anything but whistle Tenting Tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Ah, Wilderness? | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...A.M.C.'s Labor Relations Vice President Edward L. Cushman, 47, was properly grateful to be ranked alongside General Motors' Ford and Chrysler, but equally insistent that independent-minded American Motors has no intention of being lumped with the other auto companies in a pattern settlement. Cushman, a cigar-smoking ex-professor of public administration at Detroit's Wayne University, was equally complimentary before both sides got down to hard bargaining. Said he: "The union's approach this year-saying 'Here are the problems, let's talk them over'-is the most constructive approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: PERSONAL FILE | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

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