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Nationwide polls showed Barry Goldwater trailing Lyndon Johnson by nearly 2 to 1. Bitter Republican moderates continued to shy away from Goldwater's candidacy. Civil rights leaders denounced him and the Ku Klux Klan endorsed him. Reinhold Niebuhr's Protestant magazine, Christianity and Crisis, concluded that Barry'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The He Could Phenomenon | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

The magic word was not much help in last week's fighting, touched off when a teen-age Lumpa was thrashed by his uncle, a Kaunda man, for playing hooky from school. In the early battles, angry Lumpas reportedly speared 50 of Kaunda's followers, then herded 150...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Rhodesia: Alice Is at It Again | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

To sit through the film is something like holding an elephant on your lap for two hours and 15 minutes. You can hardly measure what you have there, but it leaves a definite impression; it's big, it's warmhearted, and tons of fun for the kids.-See...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 10, 1964 | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

While both love affairs develop innocuously, the gaps in the story line are filled by some delightful European circus acts and other diversions. A 4,000-ton ship keels over at the pier in Barcelona, and one exciting scene has Hayworth, Cardinale and Wayne all dangling from the rigging of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sawdust Spectacular | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

That was the spirit in which the convention began. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins decried the "reckless adventurism" of more militant civil rights groups. Warned Carl Rowan, a Negro and director of the U.S. Information Agency: "Don't use an elephant gun to hunt toads." Counseled Guest Speaker Hubert Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Satisfaction to Fury | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

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