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...director in 1962. His present job, and that of TIME International, was defined some years ago by Henry R. Luce: "To put into the hands of anyone who wishes to read it, wherever in the world he may be, a copy of the unexpurgated standard edition of TIME in English, not later than the date of issue...
Told to "fight a clean fight" and avoid atrocities,, Gowon's troops, at least 15,000 strong, launched a four-pronged attack. His small collection of English-made Ferret and Saladin armored vehicles pushed toward the Biafra capital of Enugu and the provincial centers of Nsukka and Ogoja. Large numbers of federal troops, which the government said were "moving cross-country on their flat feet," reportedly overran an Eastern military camp and captured 500 recruits. Determined Biafrans, whose army of about 7,000 is largely composed of Ibo tribesmen, claimed to have thrown Gowon's men back into...
...designs were the first stage settings by the great English sculptor, Henry Moore, 68, and were the sensation of the opening week of the tenth annual Festival of Two Worlds. When the festival director, Gian Carlo Menotti, first suggested the idea, Moore was reluctant. After all, for years he had declined Sir Laurence Olivier's entreaties to design a production of King Lear for Britain's National Theater. But then Moore agreed to let Italian Designer Fiorella Mariani adapt settings from his existing works. When he saw the results, he was so pleased that he immediately...
What's more, they did it all in an old shell. Sitting in the Crimson boathouse is a new 50 ft. English racing shell that Coach Harry Parker, 31, bought last winter to replace Harvard's heavier 56-ft. Swiss shell. His varsity oarsmen have never been able to use the new boat-simply because, at an average 6 ft. 3 in. and 196 Ibs. per man, they are too big to get into...
What repression could not fully accomplish, inner dissension did. Some Wobblies-including Helen Gurley Flynn and John Reed-drifted toward Communism. Others slowly eased their way back into society. Ralph Chaplin, as great a labor poet as Joe Hill, turned both conservative and Catholic. English-born Charles Ashleigh became a gold prospector in Mexico...