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...next year Douglas married Mercedes Hester Davidson, divorced wife of a former Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Mercedes had been his research assistant, even attended auto mechanics school to learn how to change tires and spark plugs on their faraway trips. But for all of that, something was amiss. Two weeks ago, Mercedes won an uncontested divorce on grounds of cruelty (TIME, Aug. 9). Five days later, Bill Douglas, 64, and Joan Martin, 23, were married; the following day, Mercedes married her third husband, Washington Lawyer Robert B. Eichholz...
...Ugly American. Ambassador Brando, in a Ronald Colman mustache and a Fred Astaire top hat, matches ideologies with a native revolutionist in faraway South Sarkhan. Most of the Americans involved in this fanciful adaptation of the Burdick-Lederer novel are so lacking in charm that it is hard to decide just who is the ugliest...
Only in the last word of the novel is it made clear that Smith and Jones are really a couple of Iron Curtain diplomats -and here the surprise ending pops like a paper bag-in "that strange faraway foreign capital, Ottawa." Yes, all the time they were really Communists who have defected to the West...
THERE were other TIME correspondents traveling to faraway places for stories in this issue. From New Delhi, James Shepherd made his way to Sikkim's remote capital of Gangtok to see the charming wedding of the Crown Prince to his American bride...
During the triumphant flyby, some of the messages read clearly, telling that the instruments were working well and observing Venus properly. But at other times, the code was jumbled. Apparently two faraway instruments were trying to talk at once. So the necessary parts of a duplicate Mariner were set up in a laboratory and made to observe, in effect, a simulated Venus. When the lab instruments also talked out of turn, they gave a key for disentangling the mixed-up messages from Mariner 'II. These tediously deciphered reports are what were made public last week...