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Where had they come from? Leopoldville, that unfriendly capital across the Congo River. Who had sent them? "That dwarf abbe," Fulbert Youlou, the deposed President who had vowed to overthrow Massamba-Debat's regime. Furthermore, he charged, the commandos had been trained and equipped by the Congolese army with the aid of a foreign embassy that he refused to name. "It's curious," he said, "but it was not the United States embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Republic: To Burn, to Bury or to Hang? | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

Bare-breasted Rhinemaidens (an effect achieved by body stockings tipped in rubber at the critical points) fondle an oversexed dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: A Freudian Ring | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

Michael Dunn is a dwarf. At the age of 30, he stands 3 ft. 10 in. with his socks on and weighs 78 lbs., if you include his eyeglasses. Dunn is also an actor and a singer. His talents in both areas are considerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Elf's Progress | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Parabolic Process. The son of an engineer, Dunn was born with two dislocated hips. "By the time I was four, I realized I would be a dwarf," he says. And when he was five, the trouble was diagnosed-chondrodystrophy, a rare form of nonhereditary dwarfism believed to be caused by a chemical imbalance during gestation. Undaunted, Dunn terrified his parents by tearing off in hot pursuit of a normal childhood. He did not quite get one, but he managed to break his nose playing football and his leg ice-skating, and he almost drowned when, at ten, he jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Elf's Progress | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Novelist Günter Grass set the style. Finding himself unable to dramatize the horrors of the Nazi era through the consciousness of a responsible man, Grass's imaginative and very successful solution was to see the years of horror through the sensibility of a dwarf. Following his lead, Jakov Lind, Uwe Johnson and Ingeborg Bachmann have made mutes, idiots and psychotics their means of confronting the bestiality of Nazi sadism on some sort of equal footing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Child's Garden of Nightmares | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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