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Gagarin's alleged space flight, as reported is so full of contradictions as to be unbelievable. Your naive acceptance of this Russian hoax as truth is an insult to the intelligence of every thinking American and does a grave injustice to those engaged in our own space program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1961 | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...worth hearing, some (but by no means all) of the costumes worth looking at, the play worth knowing. But that isn't enough; those who are curious are likely to find the Ajax a bore, and those who love the language may even think it something close to insult...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: The Ajax | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...final insult to Munch, his house was demolished last year because it was considered ugly, whereas Ibsen's study is preserved intact in Oslo's Folkmuseum, and Grieg's house, in Bergen, is a national shrine. The often-quoted ". . . A prophet is not without honor save in his own country"* has never been more appropriate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1961 | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently, "if I die of anything else, I'll shoot myself." For years she called her daughter "Biddy Jean," until a nun at Scranton's Marywood Seminary put a stop to it on the ground that the term biddy was an insult to Irish womanhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...give added insult, Red China has been elaborately conciliatory to its other neighbors, while treating the Indians with scorn. In January, Premier Chou En-lai ratified a border treaty with Burma, impudently drawing a line that gave Burma a small slice of northeastern India as part of the deal. Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Very Patient Nehru | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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