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For an actor, Vaughn gave a terrible performance. He was tense and rigid. His lips were set as tight as his fisted grip on the podium. In his outrage and indignation he overran words, phrases, whole sentences like a boy delivering an oral report to the sixth grade. But he...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Robert Vaughn | 5/17/1967 | See Source »

Died. Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, 68, the Soviet Union's Minister of Defense since 1957; of cancer; in Moscow. Short, grizzled, gruff, Malinovsky looked like the original Russian bear-and played the part to perfection. As a heavy-fisted soldier, he took part in the World War II defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 7, 1967 | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

He was no underdog when it came to running his union. Hoffa ruthlessly crushed opposition, demanded total obedience from his officers. His iron-fisted rule led him into questionable associations with gangsters, shady deals with employers and flagrant misuse of union funds. Bobby Kennedy, who as counsel for the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Jimmy's Nemesis | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

The TV camera zooms in for a close-up and focuses on her hands. She may be dicing an onion, mincing a garlic clove, trussing a chicken. Her fingers fly with the speed and dexterity of a concert pianist. Strength counts, too, as she cleaves an ocean catfish with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Everyone's in the Kitchen | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Wood and Davis helped create EC Comics (E for Educational) and were responsible for much of the art in Tales From the Crypt, Veuls of Horror, Two-Fisted Tales, and the original Med. Although the content in EC Comics was offensive enough to cause the formation of a national Comic...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Return of the Spirit | 7/26/1966 | See Source »

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