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...other seat is presently vacant). He would thus have to exchange his large, plush office for one of freshman dimensions and even forfeit his choice parking space in the congressional garage. He would also be required to sever from the office payroll his $19,300-a-year secretary-companion, Corinne Huff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Down to 434th | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Repellent & Alluring. At 1 p.m. Zurich time, Modestini, Feidler and their 490-year-old companion boarded Swissair Flight 100. Ginevra occupied a $417 window seat. Beneath the suitcase tab was a dial, similar to those used on meat thermometers, indicating the temperature deep within the Styrofoam. "We checked her temperature every hour," says Feidler, who found it rising slowly but no faster than anticipated. "I would be less than truthful if I didn't say that I had apprehensions." A five-hour delay in landing was caused by an East Coast snowstorm. At New York, customs officials, alerted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paintings: The Flight of the Bird | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Malta, with its companion islands of Gozo and Comino, remains as friendly to outsiders as when, in A.D. 60, St. Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked with a few adherents and found that "the barbarous people showed them no little kindness." Today, in the capital of Valletta, which was founded by the Knights of Malta to commemorate their victory over an invading Ottoman fleet, sailors find a paradise of bars, cabarets and girls. In its "fiveyear plan," the island has already built a gambling casino, and next year both a Sheraton and a Hilton hotel will rise over Malta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malta: A Tenant Moves Out | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Lear's Fool. No one follows this pie-eyed piper, and he follows no one; his most faithful companion is the skeleton of a woman, the least troublesome kind of female from his point of view. In every town he knows the jails, the madhouses, the cantinas and the churches. He wears rags sewn with tiny bells, each of which tinkles a note that in his mind symbolizes the special vice of each place he has visited. He is a spiv, and his roguish capacity for survival unites him with Ulysses, Tom Jones and Huckleberry Finn. Yet Pito remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Opera for a Penny Whistle | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Poetry, friends, can be a boon companion, can lead us beside the still waters, can wrap us in its colors to keep us warm. Lately it has fallen out of use, especially modern poetry. In the wake of "The Waste Land," many young folk suppose that all modern verse will be a dead tree yielding no shelter; they assume, perhaps by association, it will be, not only esoteric, but also the voice of old age (or premature...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: A Young Poet | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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