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WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews and Peter Finch star in Paramount's 1954 Ceylon-based love triangle. Elephant Walk. Color.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 1, 1965 | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Half-Measures. The proposals disclosed little sense of realism. A broadened, "elephant" Cabinet would more than likely bog down in the same sort of bickering and flatulent debate that plagued Adoula's ill-fated government. There are few rebel prisoners untainted by the Simba massacres; in fact, there are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Trying to Untarrnish Tshombe | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Sir: In recounting the myth of Buddha's conception, you have supplied us with the granddaddy of all elephant jokes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 18, 1964 | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Sarit valued lovely women more than the rarest jade or the whitest elephant. For all that, no beauty contests were permitted during his rule, and as a result, his country had not named a Miss Thailand in ten years. The reason was simple: before he took power, Field Marshal Sarit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Beauty's Comeback | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Buddha dismissed the ultimate philosophical questions, such as the finiteness or infinity of the world, as profitless speculation. But he took over from Hinduism the concept of the endless cycle of life, in which a man might be reincarnated as anything from a noble elephant to a lowly spider?depending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Buddha on the Barricades | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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