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...year in aid on its former colony in order to make Abidjan a showcase of French influence - but it remains a showcase for much else besides. At a hastily called meeting of foreign diplomats and government officials, the President last week revealed that he had come within a fork's length of being assassinated by -of all things-juju...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ivory Coast: Juju Justice | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...knocks Harry back between her chops. Breath-Death shows Harpo Marx playing his harp on the edge of a smoking battlefield. Khrushchev appears, sneezes, and Hitler pops up and says Gesundheit. A Merlin-like figure suddenly gets stuck in the back of the neck with a flying table fork. A nude appears, with two small skulls where her breasts should be. Another girl lies in bed caressing a TV set on the pillow beside her. Reading downbed from the TV set is a spread-out man's shirt and a pair of trousers. Kind of anemic, this lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Year of Our Ford | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

Formidable opposition should come from B.U., whose male entrant is a football player with the ominous name of John Henry. But, a member of the Crimson squad predicted, "He'll die with a fork in his hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Chases Pancake Diadem | 2/11/1964 | See Source »

...doubly sure that she is alone, she begins eating. She may start with apples and cheese, but she soon moves on to buttered toast, cookies, milk, mashed potatoes, hamburger, and cold dry cereal. She takes everything with her fingers, even if it is usually caten with a knife and fork. She pushes tiny bits of food into her mouth faster and faster, feeling herself grow full, fuller, and finally much, much too full, but still she goes on Finally, when the mere thought of food disgusts her, she stops exhausted, bloated and hating herself fariously. But before she goes back...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Compulsive Eating At The 'Cliffe | 11/9/1963 | See Source »

...Along with other taxes, the bill calls for a 60% income tax without a depletion allowance. Although no specific sum is mentioned in the bill, the company may also have to pay a $50 million settlement. Altogether, claims the company, the government's maneuver could force I.P.C. to fork over 102% of its profits each year. The alternative: transferal of the concession to the government for a "fair" price after unpaid "debts" are deducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Canceling the Oil Concession | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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