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Zanzibar, to the north, is like neither Madagascar nor Tanganyika. Once the major headquarters for Arab slavers, it is a lady island, pungent with the odor of cloves and the glamour of Araby. Tourists can ride the streets in dilapidated rickshas, visit the old Arab waterfront fort and the harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Beyond the Horizon | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

It was to be a real extravaganza. No fewer than 450 newsmen were on hand at Cape Canaveral, along with a tangle of cameras, cables and vans set up for television's first "live" space shot. Marveled the U.S. Marine Corps' onlooking Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John Glenn: "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Pffft | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

The nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have an august, impersonal presence. But beneath those black robes beat the human hearts of men with very human worries, frustrations-and tempers. Chief Justice Earl Warren has a notably thin skin, and waspish Justice Felix Frankfurter can get under an elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Warren v. Frankfurter | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Across the Border. Angola's troubled area is the sprawling Congo district on the northern frontier. There the rainy season turned roads into quagmires of oozing mud, and the elephant grass grows eight-feet high, making concealment a simple matter for the terrorists who slipped across the border by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: Soothing with Bullets | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Faun in Old Felt. In his 35 years in Africa, Ionides has lived for ten days on the partial contents of two ostrich eggs, been trampled by a charging elephant resulting in total deafness of one ear, climbed a 100-ft. tree, despite acrophobia, and with only one arm free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life of a Non-Pukka Sahib | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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