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...hotly attacked as immoral. Immoral? Rome's weekly Settimana Incom thought the gals might have a few thoughts on that, and did they ever! "I do not think it is more harmful for a young boy to see my striptease than to see the James Bond movies, which exalt violence," pouted Sophia Loren, 30, who cut quite a figure in the bordello scene in Marriage-Italian Style. Virna Lisi, 27, was hardly more penitent: "I have a severe husband, I am a good mother, and yet I absolutely do not feel guilty for having shown a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 9, 1965 | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...court, Justice Hugo Black rejected Texas' claim as the state having the most "contacts" with the debt. To follow that rule would saddle the court with endless case-by-case litigation, said Black. New Jersey's claim as the debtor's domicile would "too greatly exalt a minor factor," while Pennsylvania's main-office argument might force the court to tot up the space or staff in one branch office after another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Espousing Easier Escheat | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...face with its high-domed forehead and arched eyebrows seems slightly Asiatic to Western eyes; in Asia it looks Western. Both the Russians and the Chinese passionately claim it as their own. On either side of the great split that now divides the Communist world, the disputants exalt Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as their patron and prophet. Lenin looks on as, in his name, Nikita Khrushchev denounces the Chinese as dogmatists, fools, adventurers and warmongers. And Lenin looks on as, in his name, Mao Tse-tung denounces the Russians as revisionists, traitors, bourgeois cowards and capitulationists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Battle over the Tomb | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...that had had 3,000 years to grow, nourished in settled, rich and leisurely societies comparable in many ways to the ancient Egyptians. In the course of raising seasonal crops, worshiping a panoply of local gods to honor bountiful harvests, building huge pyramids to exalt these gods, the Mayas, Olmecs, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Toltecs and Aztecs developed an artistic tradition unmatched elsewhere in the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 35 Centuries of Mexican Art | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...town fathers incriminate themselves: the rich doctor objects that Marcy is taking money from the purses of honest physicians with her free toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells of tubercular prisoners in the penitentiary. The voices of the poor exalt Marcy: it is recalled that she went more than 20 miles through waist-deep snow to tend the dying child of a miner when no doctor would get out of bed to do the job, that she was kind to a halfwit, that she soothed an unjustly condemned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eliza Crosses Main Street | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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