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GIRL WITH GREEN EYE,S. As a bubbly colleen who chances a fling with a middle-aged author, Britain's Rita Tushingham makes a trite tale seem fresh, poignant, and deliciously funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...straight games. He led the Colts to two N.F.L. championships, was voted the league's Player of the Year, made the all-pro team seven years running. His scrambling ability is legendary: he once completed a 20-yd. pass underhanded, and, in a pinch, he can fling the ball with his left hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: Colts with a Kick | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

Soon after he shot at Walker, Oswald took an abortive fling at organizing a Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans, but his deepest drive then was to get to Cuba himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...from Limbo. Yet, amazingly, last week Bud Powell, now 39, was back on the U.S. jazz scene, cured of TB and fat as a Burgermeister. The homecoming was staged at Birdland, New York's famed jazz temple, which after a two-month fling at booking rock-'n'-rollers (TIME, May 8) has returned to hosting modern jazzmen. The metamorphosis was complete when Powell forcefully struck the first chords of The Best Thing for You Is Me. His attack was robust and sure, erupting in a series of crashing, dissonant chords, then retreating in flights of delicate melodic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Bud's O.K. | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...city to 40 minutes or so. The high-speed railway that will carry passengers the 300 miles from Tokyo to Osaka in three hours is ready to run-but company officials must figure out how to curb suicide-minded Nipponese who want to be among the first to fling themselves under the fascinating wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Fresh Start | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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