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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right-wing reason for opposing it. He called the contract an effort "to disguise Brazil's progressive entry into the Soviet orbit." Goulart's resolve melted under all the political heat; he ordered still an other detailed appraisal of Amforp's as sets "screw by screw, fuse by fuse." With the original deal scratched, Amforp is left with the thankless task of operating utilities that drain more money and make more enemies every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Investors Beware | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...Scientist magazine, are accomplished by concentrating a powerful flash of laser light on a tiny area by means of a lens. It is a nice trick in a laboratory, but warheads plunging down from space hardly can be expected to carry lenses to expedite their own destruction. To fuse a steel casing weighing 100 Ibs. would require a laser light strong enough to deliver 807 kilowatts of energy to it for a full minute. If the beam were to hit the warhead 30 miles above the earth, it would be spread out so much that only 0.5% of its energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Death to Death Rays | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...just as well off without that client." What about Junior's five traffic violations and $125 fine for driving after a suspended license? Didn't they indicate a "public be damned'' attitude? Roosevelt thought not, explained one of the violations was for a blown headlight fuse-and anyway, he got his license back after he became the "proud graduate" of a school for frequent traffic offenders. What. Prouty asked, about some $26,000 in taxes that the Internal Revenue Service claimed Junior owed in 1958? A misunderstanding, insisted Roosevelt, but he would happily pay the assessments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Advise & Consent | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...that they're hemmed in. And when you feel hemmed in. there's always a bursting out." Says School Superintendent Carl Hansen: "There is a seething discontent in this city which is both justified and frightening. We're sitting on a keg of dynamite with the fuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: The Keg with the Lit Fuse | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...little civil war in Yemen last week spluttered on like a defective fuse. The royalist tribesmen trying to put the deposed Imam of Yemen back on his feudal throne made hit-and-run attacks on strongpoints held by the "republicans" of General Abdullah Sallal and their Egyptian allies. In return Egyptian planes bombed the tribal encampments and even crossed the border to blast again the Saudi Arabian town of Najran, the main staging area for supplies sent to the royalists by the nervous monarchs of both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Kings Hussein and Saud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The U.S. Intervenes On Both Sides | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

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