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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 40 years ago in Pekin, Ill., after he had starred in and married the leading lady of a local theatrical. In Pekin, he also co-authored and directed a two-act comedy called Chinese Love, which tells of Sing Loo's pursuit of the blossom of his eye, Pan Toy. Sample dialogue: Sing Loo: Do you know what the lover expects from his love in that golden moment when they are betrothed? Pan Toy: I do not know. Sing Loo: Shall I show you? Pan Toy: Is it dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Sing Loo, Sweet Senator | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...board a spacecraft, there is no judgment aloft, no freedom of choice, no chance to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, less chance than ever of getting past unforeseen trouble. Ranger's pictures of the moon, spectacular though they were, contain only 500,000 "bits" of information; the human eye with one glance takes in 100 million "bits." In short, however intricately engineered, no instrument, no computer can quite replace man. As one scientist observed, "You can study a girl's measurements, but it will never be a substitute for putting your arm around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY SHOULD MAN GO TO THE MOON? | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

When a Japanese prepares to make a wish, he is apt to buy a one-eyed doll modeled after the famed Buddhist monk Daruma, who founded the Zen sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Right Eye of Daruma | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...reads "middlebrow" samurai novels (the Japanese equivalent of westerns), and watches with benevolence the careers of his two sons, Ryutaro, 38, an oil-company executive, and Shinji, 34, who works for the Nippon Kokan steel company. To the looks of a Kabuki actor, Sato adds a very calculating eye for his own position and a buoyant sense of balance when it comes to his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Right Eye of Daruma | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

Apparently frightened, Raven took out a pen-shaped tear-gas gun, squirted Callinan in the left eye and ran-hotly pursued by two off-duty Brooklyn policemen who were also drinking at the bar. Not only was she unaware that her pursuers were cops, she said, but they beat her up on the street-a story coldly denied by the police on the stand, warmly supported by her cousin in the press. Whatever the facts in the matter, Raven was charged with third-degree assault, violation of New York's stiff Sullivan weapons law, and unlawful possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Safety: How Can a Girl Defend Herself? | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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