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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROSE TATTOO is a sensuously direct drama of a Sicilian widow in Louisiana with an obsessive attachment to an urn containing her husband's ashes. Maureen Stapleton once again plays Tennessee Williams' high-strung heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

NOEL (Vanguard). Mostly traditional Christmas carols sung by the silvery knife-thin voice of Joan Baez to the accompaniment of recorders, viols and the like. Not her best but still appealing and direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...have any real effect, U.N. sanctions would have to include a total blockade on oil imports by Rhodesia. But such a blockade would almost inevitably lead Britain into a direct economic confrontation with South Africa, which now supplies the fuel that Rhodesia cannot readily get anywhere else. That would cut off Britain's considerable trade with South Africa, most notably including gold, which is one of the main props for the British pound. Last week sterling dropped of a cent in a wave of panic selling. Whatever happens, Wilson told Parliament, the U.N. sanctions "must not be allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: Admission of Failure | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...delegates met in Tokyo's musty old Kudan Hall for their 28th annual convention, the Socialists had a chance to change the party's image. Up for re-election was Party Chairman Kozo Sasaki, 65, whose far-left tendencies have helped establish the present ideological direction. The challenger was Saburo Eda, 59, a moderate who seeks to direct the party into more vote-catching paths by de-emphasizing such Marxian credos as class war and nationalization. Instead, Eda promised to head the party toward his "Eda vision," an eclectic selection of party goals that would have Japan under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Divided & Conquerable | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...transmitter." No bigger than a pair of back-to-back matchbooks, the transmitter can be quickly hidden inside the base of any telephone. Once installed, it can be monitored from thousands of miles away. The properly equipped eavesdropper need only dial the number of the bugged phone from any direct-dialing phone anywhere in the world, and stand ready to send a single-frequency tone down the line before the distant phone rings. That tone, created by blowing a pretuned whistle into the phone's mouthpiece, not only turns on the transmitter, it also prevents the bugged phone from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Everybody's Got the Bug | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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