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FICTION: Airships, Barry Hannah Final Payments, Mary Gordon Kalki, Gore Vidal Picture Palace...
DIED. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, 83, Prime Minister of Australia for an unprecedented 16-year span (1949-66), who founded the Liberal Party and took a firm stand against the "downward threat" of Communism; of a heart attack; in Melbourne. The son of a small-town grocer, Menzies always had "a respect for the rights of the top dog." He was never a popular leader, but he towered above his colleagues as a magnificent orator and consummate politician. Nevertheless, his first term as Prime Minister, from 1939 to 1941, ended with a sweeping victory for the Labor Party. He made...
Final Payments, Mary Gordon...
...concern was shared by TIME Chief of Research Leah Gordon, who led the effort to find a suitable institution to house the collection. The National Portrait Gallery, established in 1962, seemed to be the ideal place. Reporter-Researcher Rosemary Frank finally succeeded, after months of work, in tracking down and retrieving hundreds of pieces of cover art, some of which had drifted to TIME offices round the world. Promotion Director Robert Sweeney arranged the complicated details of the bequest with the gallery. The gift was accepted by S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. "These portraits are as stylish...
Confronted by the Prince, Socialist Workers' Party Member Kim Gordon, a British Ghanian, explained that the demonstration was against police harassment. "Couldn't you come together and discuss it?" Charles asked. To the police at his elbow, he said, "What about it?" Before leaving, he accepted a protest leaflet and pleaded, "See if you can sort things out. You cannot go around like this." The intervention drew fire. "I don't care who he is," snapped the head of the police union. "He should not have said anything...