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Caught in a Jam. At 3 a.m. the morning that Goulart was to present his request for a state of siege to Congress, a Goulart friend, Brigadier General Alfredo Pinheiro, accompanied by Lieut. Colonel Abelardo Mafra, appeared at the Vila Militar base in suburban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Chaos Compounded | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...Mafra and 20 engineers roared out of the base in two troop trucks. To avoid downtown traffic, Mafra guided his tiny convoy through the coastal hills, only to run into a traffic jam caused by an accident. By the time they finally reached the hospital, it was 8 a.m. Lacerda had just left-after his secret service got a last-minute tip that troops were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Chaos Compounded | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Having spent more than an hour in a traffic jam with nothing else to do but ponder this puzzling paradox, I finally decided he must perforce be using the Smith and Wesson model 41 with the short barrel. This seems to me the only possible weapon consistent with his character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1963 | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...special piquancy via hints that Author Grace Metalious had merely written about her own domestic career up in lustful, hypocritical, murderous New England. The sequels that followed prolonged the speculation; if they weren't written on the kitchen table, how could they be so smeared with jam? Irving Wallace gained a certain respectability by pretending that his fat novels (The Chapman Report, The Prize) were based on research-research that delved into the odd aberrations of sex ual surveyors and Nobel prizewinners. Now both are back with new novels-one, at least, with a difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Body Love | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

Yovicsin was more than eager to join newsmen in praising ends Stephenson, Boyda, Frank Ulcickas and Paul Barringer for their contributions. Cornermen Jerry Mechling and Rick Beizer graphically demonstrated how much of an art defense can be, missing practically no opportunity to jam the Mass offense...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Defense-Minded Crimson Fights Mass to Scoreless Tie | 9/30/1963 | See Source »

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