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...Time to Speak Out. The most remarkable thing was that even Mc-Comb, consistently the most intransigent of the intransigent, was obviously awed by the fact that there is a rule of law. The day before the Biloxi hearing started, 650 of the town's leading doctors, lawyers, ministers and businessmen placed a full-page ad in the Mc-Comb Enterprise-Journal declaring that "the time has come for responsible people to speak out for what is right and against what is wrong." Said the ad's signers, who described themselves as "Citizens for Progress": "There is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Do Not Despair | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Spartan regime that begins at 6:45 a.m. with a brisk run on a gravel road followed by hot and cold showers. Though neither an outstanding student nor athlete, he mixes well, and his public image is that of a healthy boy with a mop of hair that defies comb and brush. When it was suggested that he has a Beatle's haircut, His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, heir apparent to the British throne, grinned and said, "You mean the Beatles have a Prince Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Princely Pauper | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

There were mornings I would not comb...

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

Paul Bunyan, who used a pine tree for a comb and once hitched his blue ox, Babe, to the foot of a river and hauled it into an adjoining prairie, would have been proud to claim credit for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Bridge of Size | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...Archie Moore); of brain injuries suffered when he was knocked out by San Francisco's Johnny Riggins in September 1962; in Mendoza, Argentina. Despite three craniotomies, Lavorante remained in a coma for 18 months, though nurses fed him meals, guided him through exercises, even trained him to comb his hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 10, 1964 | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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