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She can wear her traditional cloak because she is so well designed for it. Her old crooked streets, streets which cry out for little specialty shops and snug restaurants, leave the high-rise mobile visionaries agog. She still can't understand how they accomplished Pru, much less Government Center. Whereas...

Author: By Darcy Pinketon, | Title: Deck the Halls With Boston Charlie | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

Despite the British boycott of tobacco, Rhodesians were still planting it in hopes that by the time their crops mature next April they will be able to find a market. Despite stringent trade and currency restrictions designed to undercut the Rhodesian pound, the new nation's hard currency reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: The Defiance of Sir Humphrey | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Black, white, black...a rhythm ripples in the sun, pounds in steaming, stinking shacks, dances in the blood. Reality is kaleidoscopic in the black belt. Sometimes one's vision changes with it. A crooked man climbed a crooked tree on a crooked hill. Somewhere, in the midst of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jonathan Daniels Tells of the Black Belt | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Flamenco at Toulouse. Among the sketches in the show are several sly caricatures of Diaghilev, a top hat perched on his balding pate, a pince-nez trailing across his crooked countenance. There is a portrait of the ballerina Koklova, previously seen only by Picasso's intimate friends. Some of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Picasso's Theater Period | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

President Johnson's political critics often take the opportunity to point out that he has not always been the civil rights advocate that he is today. In that spirit, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford last week told a press conference that as a Congressman and Senator between 1940 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Mistakes That I Made | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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