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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York State park. Selling the property for $4,278,000 were his widow, Ruth Pruyn Field, and the Field Foundation. With its polo field, shooting preserve, seaplane and yacht docks, the Caumsett domain was called by Long Island State Park Commission President Robert Moses-"one of the largest and finest remaining privately owned estates on the Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, was at work at the site of the holy city of Nippur, the seat of Enlil, god of the elements. There, only 100 miles south of Baghdad, it has uncovered perhaps the finest Sumerian find in 25 years-more than 50 ritual objects, vases, bas-reliefs and statues of the third millennium B.C. (see color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE LEGACY OF SUMER | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...baskets, a league record for all-star games. For putting on one of the greatest one-man shows in the history of the N.B.A., Robertson was given the game's most-valuable-player award, another proof that at the age of 22 he has become the finest all-round player in basketball. Said the West's Coach Paul Seymour: "He was excellent. He was great. He was spectacular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Was Ready | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...always means brisk business for Gammarelli; once his five seamstresses and one cutter, who work in two cramped rooms above the store, turned out 18 cardinal vestments at one time. To make sure all the garments conform to the church's centuries-old traditions, Gammarelli uses only the finest materials, carefully oversees the work. As a double check, he continually refers to a pattern book hand-painted in watercolors by his sister Maria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: The Cloak & Soutane Trade | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

Birth control is the finest example of the narrow line between the church and state. For while the hierarchy from Rome has said that it is not the task of Catholics to impose their beliefs on others (apparently this was not clearly heard in San Juan), there is no easy line. Birth control, like the drug traffic and pornography, easily becomes a public issue and the moral outlook, rather than just the position of the moment, is circumscribed for a Catholic. One of the self-defined functions of American government has been the prevention of public immorality...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: 'Congress Shall Make No Law...' | 1/25/1961 | See Source »

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