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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Representatives from four major underdeveloped areas of the world dis the economic problems facing their particular countries in a 20th Century Week panel discussion at Sanders Theatre last night...

Author: By Rudolf V. Ganz jr., | Title: Panel Discusses Problems Of Economic Development | 12/10/1960 | See Source »

...tall and past 80 in age, the gorgeously robed Fon moves through Author Durrell's pages like the mythic club member of some eternally tipsy Olympus. The Fon also regaled Durrell with a pidgin-English account of Queen Elizabeth's tour of the neighboring realm. "Dis Queen woman she get plenty power. She walker walker she never shweat. Na foine woman dis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fon's Fauna | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...Coward: "It's amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country is dis? Puttin up a monument of a guy stealin' hubcaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1960 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...rival resolution endorsing Gaitskell's stand seemed doomed to defeat-until twinkling little Bill Carron, leader of the Amalgamated Engineers (907,000 members) suddenly made a bid to save his old friend. His engineers were committed to vote for unilateral nuclear dis armament. But Carron proclaimed, after consulting with his delegation, that he found no contradiction between the two resolutions and would therefore cast his union's big vote for both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Contracting Out | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...make the keynote speech, the committee picked Idaho's ever smiling Senator Frank Church.* who is 35 but looks mid-twentyish. Church attracted national attention at 16. when he won an American Legion oratorical contest. In 1956 he orated himself into the Senate, where his most obvious dis tinction is to be that body's youngest member. Legend has it that an old lady visiting the Capitol once said to him: "I understand that you page boys are often mistaken for Senator Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Talkiest Jobs | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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