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In answer to doleful pleas from his sons and relations, King Saud cautiously returned home last month. A few tribal delegations came to Riyadh to pay their respects. One, led by Deputy Premier Prince Khalid, another of Saud's 39 brothers, handed the King an ultimatum. Tactfully but plainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: The Ailing, Failing King | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

Brooks won the 1949 Kentucky Derby on Ponder, was aboard Citation when the long-tailed Triple Crown champion won the 1951 Hollywood Gold Cup to become racing's first millionaire horse. But Brooks is best known for his knack with "problem horses" that other jockeys have written off. Shrewd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The Psychiatrist | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

Say "West Virginia" and many people think of moonshining and coal mining, relief checks and bare feet. To erase this doleful public image, the West Virginia Centennial Commission decided to do something real cultural to celebrate the state's 100th anniversary: hold an art contest and give a prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yes, West Virginia, There Is A James Johnson Sweeney | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

Such doleful hand wringing left many churchmen aghast, and at the conference's end, delegates approved a well-meant "Appeal to the Conscience of the American People," which called for a reign of justice, love, courage and prayer in which "voting rights and equal protection of the law will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Churches: That Awful Fatalism | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

"There are years more before I can go anyplace fun," said San Francisco High School Senior Claudia French as she marked her 17th birthday. For many a U.S. teenager, the task of finding nighttime amusement that will meet with the approval of parents and the law is a similarly doleful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Teen-Age Nightclubs | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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