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...Nation office last week. When the manager refused to remove Kaunda's picture, off came their clothes. Buff naked, the strippers danced about and chanted: "Kaunda, Kaunda, Freedom now, cha cha cha." Local cops finally arrived, wrapped blankets around the freedom writhers and hustled them off to the clink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Rhodesia: The Freedom Writhers | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Nonetheless, in Lower Manhattan's cobblestoned butter-and-egg wholesaling district, the cocky little National Stock Exchange made its debut amid the clink of champagne glasses and the clang of the trading gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Another Stock Exchange | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they have at least the solid clink of pseudo-facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Grader Replies | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Bullshot & Zebra Skins. The biggest center of cooperative seclusion is Jamaica's north shore, which has half a dozen new subdivisions where the clink of cocktail glasses is heard from morning bullshot to evening brandy. At the Tryall estates, west of Montego Bay. an American couple who figure in the international set, Arthur W. Little Jr. and his wife Harriet, last year built a $200,000 home that features a patio made of 100-year-old bricks. Peter Arno nudes in the master bathroom, and zebra skins from an African safari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Caribbean: Crowds in the Sun | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...season of sounds. There are others: the soaring nobility of Handel's Messiah; the cheerful beauty of carols that somehow sound best in the snow outside somebody's front door at night; the tinkling bells on the live sheep in the village créche, and the clink of coins in the kettles set up for the poor; the thousand different squeals of joy that children invent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: But Once a Year | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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