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...nuns and shamelessly employs a rather widely used gag as he tells them that "they're the only kisses you'll ever get." Hardly a day goes by that Boston Catholics can pick up their papers without seeing a new picture of their cardinal dancing a jig in an old folks' home or mugging outrageously beneath some improbable hat. Last year in Rome, when President Kennedy visited the North American College, Cushing was on hand to greet him, with a group of sobersided clerics looking on. Instead of offering his episcopal ring to be kissed, Cushing squared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Unlikely Cardinal | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

OREGON puts on a logger jubilee on the banks of the dank, dark Flushing River the likes of which hasn't graced its scented waters before. Husky lumberjacks clomp about like junior Paul Bunyans, chop through giant timber in jig time, jostle each other into the water, and sport atop towering Douglas firs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Aug. 14, 1964 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

OREGON. A logger jubilee on the banks of the Flushing River. Husky lumberjacks like "Big Bad John" Miller saw and chop through giant timber in jig time, logrollers joust each other into the amber waters, and a death-defying treetopper climbs a towering Douglas fir to do the Charleston 110 ft. up-without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...Congo River, then raised their right arms stiffly as they took the oath of. office. Some of them got the phrase backward, but that didn't seem to matter. Premier Moise Tshombe grinned, clapped his new government on the back, and capered with flailing fists in a mad jig down the bright green lawn as his admirers screamed their approval: "Down with Adoula and vive Tshombe." Thus the Congo's fourth Premier in as many years began his rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Premier No. 4 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

OREGON. For city slickers who think they' ve seen everything: a logger jubilee on the banks of the Flushing River. Husky lumberjacks like "Big Bad John" Miller saw and chop through giant timber in jig time, logrollers joust each other into the amber waters, and a death-defying tree-topper climbs a Douglas fir to do the Charleston 110 ft. up-without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: PAVILIONS | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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