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Under the anything-goes direction of England's Tony Richardson (Tom Jones), Loved One tosses so many wreaths into the nether world of American funeral customs that it occasionally scores a dead ringer. That chrome-plated butterball, Liberace, is hilariously on key as a casket salesman, peddling such optional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grave Effrontery | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Red for Sacrifice. Last year, at the urging of Mexican archaeologists, President Adolfo López Mateos decided to disinter Teotihuacán and make it the cultural capstone of his administration. With a $1,320,000 grant from the government, Jorge Acosta, one of Mexico's top archaeologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Bigger Than Athens | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

Around the town, in an area not much larger than a small college campus, nearly half a million men died. Under the ceaseless shelling, whole companies sometimes disappeared without a trace. Even when the dead were found and buried, it sometimes did little to combat the pervasive smell of rotting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Love Battle | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

∙CIVIL RIGHTS. Kennedy asked Congress to act on pending bills to do away with such bars to voting as literacy tests and poll taxes-but Congress has been sitting on the bills for so long that it is not likely to disinter them. Kennedy boasted that "this Administration has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: State of the Union | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Some of the reasons for U.S. disinter est and Russian interest are clear in Wilson's latest novel. Written at too much length and with too little imagination, it intermingles scientific razzle-dazzle, political flimflam, and wishy-washy sex.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big in Russia | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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