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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a stiletto when she needs it, and once goaded Tory M.P. Peter Walker into comparing her to Dickens' Madame Defarge. "Madame Guillotine," he called her. "All that's missing is the knitting." As her friends from Labor's left have learned, she is first and foremost a Wilson loyalist, having served him as parliamentary private secretary when he was Board of Trade president from 1947 to 1951 and as a member of his Cabinet since 1964. He can use her support now more than ever before. The discontent with Wilson is ubiquitous: last week a pint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Best Man | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...business are those who put out avant-garde literary magazines; they seldom make a profit and rarely reach more than 5,000 readers. It must be love of literature that drives them-and properly so, for it happens that these "little magazines" have fostered the early work of the foremost writers of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Little Magazines | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...LITTLE WORLD OF ROMAN VISHNIAK (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Considered one of the foremost photographers of microscopic life, the 70-year-old biologist and zoologist developed a method called "colorization." With this unique process, he transforms scientific subjects into an art show while examining the complex life of microorganisms. Dr. Vishniak's life and work are put under the TV microscope in this color special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: May 24, 1968 | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...foremost possibility was Indonesia's biggest vessel, the dilapidated, Soviet-built cruiser Irian, once referred to by wags as "Sukarno's floating cocktail lounge." Washington accepted the proposal last week. Hanoi rejected it on the ground that Indonesia, which thwarted a Communist takeover 2½ years ago, is "not neutral." Chuckled one British official: "Why don't we try to get the North Koreans to offer the Pueblo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VERY FIRST STEP | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Crimson should have a field day in the throwing events. Dick Benka, the foremost shotputter in the East, last weekend shattered the Harvard record he had set a month ago by over a foot with a heave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Favored To Keep Boston Title | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

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