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Boston is an old city, and its streets are random by-ways first trod by Pilgrims' feet. They are narrow, crooked, totally unpredictable. And they often feed into insidious death-traps known as "squares."

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Washington and Boston: Dullness versus Exhiliration | 7/21/1964 | See Source »

At one end of the broad, cobblestone boulevard stands a cluster of trim modern apartments; at the other rises a glass-and-steel office building. In between lies "the Raper"-Europe's greatest and gaudiest fleshpot. The Reeperbahn of Hamburg's Sankt Pauli district strings more sin along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Reform Along the Raper | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

They should, for Czechoslovakia itself seems today to be smothering in a Kafkaesque nightmare. Prague was once known as the "Golden City." Nowadays it is best seen after dark, for night alone can mask the soot and uncollected refuse that mar its crooked old streets. The only Central European capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Understanding Kafka | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

His reportorial behavior goes over big with statehouse tipsters. Sooner or later, they all visit Waldron, and the tales they tell are music to a man who defines his job as a daily search for crooked politicians. In due time, Waldron's questing eye turned on Florida's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizes: Just Doing the Job | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

Never has a pinkie been crooked with more elaborate Lahr-di-da, or sexagenarian toes been more agile in the choreography of cowardice. In one panic, Lahr scrambles halfway up the proscenium arch and hangs there, glaring down in 20-foot-high dudgeon at the scoundrels who have treed him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Fool's Gold | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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