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Despite the economic ruin that would follow a massive Belgian withdrawal, Mobutu was anything but contrite. He denied personal responsibility for the rioting, insisted that all well-meaning whites were perfectly safe in his country. If there was any anti-Belgian hysteria, he said, it was all to be blamed on the mercenaries sitting boldly in Bukavu and issuing ultimatums calling for the return of Moise Tshombe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Death to All Whites | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...victory moved Boston to within one game of first-place Minnesota and Chicago, it moved the 26,000 fans to near hysteria, and it moved Republican Governor John Volpe a little closer to mass support for his stadium plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox Prevail, 6-5; Climb Near Top | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

...claims that homosexuals gravitate toward superstars because "these are people they can idolize and idealize without getting too close to. In Judy's case," she adds, "the attraction might be made considerably stronger by the fact that she has survived so many problems; homosexuals identify with that kind of hysteria." Agrees another Manhattan psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence Hatterer: "Judy was beaten up by life, embattled, and ultimately had to become more masculine. She has the power that homosexuals would like to have, and they attempt to attain it by idolizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Seance at the Palace | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...Paris fashion world for the past two weeks has been like a solid string of Broadway openings. Behind the scenes, all was hysteria, tantrums and frantic last-minute pinning, as couturier after couturier sent out his fall and winter models in one make-or-break fashion show. It was even worse out front, where fashion editors, buyers and quick-sketch artists-most of whose skirts rode up to mid-thigh-wildly scribbled and checked programs in a furious effort to catch the new trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: It's Andre & Yves | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...Close to Hysteria. Interest rates have climbed this year partly because of stepped-up borrowing by local governments, and partly because of the vast appetite of corporations to replenish their coffers after last year's tight-money pinch. New private and public bond issues rose to a record $10.4 billion during the first half of 1967 as against $8.4 billion in the first months of the year before, in what Partner Sidney Homer of the Manhattan bond house of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler calls "an exceptional, almost hysterical stampede to the money market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Lower Interest, Maybe | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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