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...trimmed red jacket, flowing chaps, flat broad-brimmed hat), she mounted a white horse and made a leisurely paseo of the fair. "I don't know what I'm doing," Jackie laughed, belying her superb equipoise, "but it's very exciting." She rode for a full half-hour through cheering crowds lining the streets, stopped to quaff a glass of sherry in the saddle. Jackie was obviously delighted and so were the spectators. "La Kennedy! La Kennedy!" they cried as she passed. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacations: The Fairest at the Fair | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...personalities, but there is a major emotional issue: the charges of Communism against Bosch. Last week sidewalks and walls in Santo Domingo were slathered with orange signs reading "Juan Bosch es comunista." Bosch tried to blunt such charges by taking to the radio in a series of half-hour broadcasts, declaring that "Communism is always totalitarianism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Unaccustomed Calm | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...dining rooms could not handle the expected additional people at one sitting. On the basis of a study by a team of professional efficiency experts, Radcliffe has decided to keep the dining halls open for buffet meals for two hours, instead of the current half-hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choice on Style Of 'Cliffe Meals Goes to Houses | 4/12/1966 | See Source »

Madrid, censors have been reading entire newspapers-even all the ads) before presses roll. Instead, ten copies of each newspaper and magazine must be deposited with the Information Ministry one half-hour before it goes on sale. Though the ministry can still seize the total press run, it must take the case to the courts promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Pressing Toward Freedom | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...produce a spectacular life of St. Paul and a recreation of Biblical history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major life of Christ. The Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers' Insight presents adult melodrama in half-hour playlets about abortion, divorce and alcoholism, featuring such stars as Raymond Massey, Vera Miles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. NBC's The Catholic Hour is offering a four-part series on the Second Vatican Council and the future of church renewal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Excitement on the Tube | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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