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A Blonde with Parrots. Experts pored over the empty butane-gas cylinder wrapped with 22 Ibs. of explosive that burned but did not bang, examined the site a half mile away where an accomplice had flashed his auto headlights to warn of the approach of the President's speeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: After the Plot | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

In a houseful of books, Betancourt began reading in earnest when he was eight. When he finished the sixth grade-as high as the local school went-his father moved the family to Caracas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Old Driver, New Road | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

In French high cultural circles, mere excellence is not considered the whole guarantee of immortality. The distinguished men who at any one time occupy the 40 chairs of the famed Académie Française enjoy a specific patent of immortality that dates back to Cardinal Richelieu. But many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Green Fever | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

On his recent whirlwind tour to visit Budweiser wholesalers around the U.S., Busch bet every man he met a brand-new hat-900 in all-that he could not top his local sales quota for the year. So far, the challenge seems to be paying off. For May and June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Baron of Beer | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Chu Teh, 68, commander in chief of the army, once the brilliant strategist of the guerrilla days, now,pretty much a figurehead, but a useful one. One version of his life makes him of the landed gentry; another says he was one of a large family of poor peasants who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RED CHINA'S BIG FOUR | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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