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When Andersen's name popped up in the Estes investigation, many of his old colleagues cut him cold, bringing forth a piteous Andersen speech on the House floor: "Some of you gentlemen who have been shying off, come and say hello to H. Carl Andersen, come shake my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Long Arm of Billie Sol | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

Although it provoked some controversies when it was introduced in an earlier version in 1958, it gave Moscow audiences an unexpected glimpse of a gamy world and eventually proved to be the most successful and talked-about ballet the Bolshoi had introduced in a decade. But in Manhattan it looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soggy Spectacular | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

San Francisco is a pastel city; Caracas is gaudily bright. And Paris, for generations, has been elephant grey. But the grime that made it grey is vanishing in a flurry of scrubbing that would shame a Baltimore housewife. Reason: a law passed by Napoleon III in 1852. decreeing that all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paris at the Cleaners | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

Faith & Politics. Among American evangelists, Billy Graham earned national fame for the sincerity of his gripping, Bible-centered oratory, and Tulsa's Oral Roberts for his emotional faith-healing sessions; Billy James Hargis has made his name with a blatant melding of fundamentalist faith to extreme right-wing politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heavyweight Champ | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

"Great balls of betel nut," roars Ives as he looks deep into the drawing-room eyes of the new arrival, "they've sent me a totok" which is Dutch slang for greenhorn. Straightaway, Ives saves scene after scene of the picture by stealing it. Guzzling what he calls P.G...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mosquito God | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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