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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with other habits picked up from their former French masters, the men who rule Laps seem to like to make frequent and complex changes of government. Last week, nearly a month after Paratroop Captain Kong Le forcibly overthrew a pro-Western Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.), Laos once again had a new government-one so complex that even its members were not sure what its policies were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Balancing Act | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...cream from the hand freezer on the back stoop. Soon after her twelfth birthday, Maggie went to work on Saturdays at Green Brothers' for io/ an hour. As a high school girl, she often filled in as night switchboard operator at the local telephone company. One of her frequent callers, who usually wanted to know the correct time, was Skowhegan's first selectman ("He had the most fascinating voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: As Maine Goes ... | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...Nathan's Famous." Among others who have put in dutiful appearances are former Governor Averell Harriman, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and New York's former Senator Herbert Lehman. The show biz set also flocks to Nathan's, including Frequent Customers Jerry Lewis. Danny Kaye, Eddie Fisher, Shelley Winters, Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: Top Dog | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...film's narration is neither as dreary as some travelogues nor as good as it could be, but at least it is not coy about the rain forest's frequent deaths. And unlike some of Disney's early wildlife films, it lets the animals provide their own humor. The script might have been improved by more scientific detail; adults would have suffered, but youngsters, accustomed to getting missile data on the backs of cereal boxes, would have thrived on it. A more serious flaw is the film's musical score. It is not as objectionably cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...assembled with the help of scissors or tape recorder or some other mechanical device. The concern of the nonbook manufacturer is not that his product be good, merely that it be sold. The nonbook is merchandise aimed at the same non-people who are the most frequent targets of the film and TV industries. What they read is new, light, dry, smooth, well-filtered, quick, effortless and contains almost no calories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Era of Non-B | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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