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U.S. military men would as soon use the bow and arrow as fight a war in landlocked Laos. The crooked fingerlike country boasts two roads on dry days, which become a morass of mud during the rainy season, beginning in May. Communications facilities are virtually nonexistent, and jungle trails suffice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LAOS: BACKGROUND FOR BATTLE | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Question 7 (Louis de Rochemont Associates). The hammer and sickle is a crooked sort of cross, but on it many millions of Christian martyrs hang. This picture-sponsored by the same Lutheran groups and produced by the same film company that made Martin Luther, one of the memorable religious films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On a Crooked Cross | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

Despite his father's hard-earned advice-"Be a scientist or a professor like your grandfather but never an actor"-handsome, crooked-smiling Sean Flynn, 19, a chip off swashbuckling Errol Flynn by his first wife Lily Damita, is ready to go down to the sea in sets as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 3, 1961 | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

The gentleman in the manhole (Jack Hawkins) turns out to be Lieut. Colonel J.G.N. Hyde, Retd., of the War Office, an impecunious nob who feels that his capacities for command were never adequately recognized in Her Majesty's service. To restore both purse and pride he decides to organize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Felonious Fun | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Bigger & Bigger. The men started with fragments, then small whole pieces, finding a ready market among crooked and gullible dealers. In 1914, they went to work on their masterpieces-three outsized Etruscan figures. As model for one standing warrior, they used a photograph of a little statue that is now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fallen Warriors | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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