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Ky, in fact, is not even nominally the top man. That hat belongs to Directory Chairman and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, 42, a brainy, sophisticated survivor of nearly every government since Diem, who provides a quiet balance to Ky's occasional impulsiveness. Of the line commanders, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Pilot with a Mission | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

Jolly Showman. His doctor attributed Quill's death to a coronary occlusion, the climax of years of heart disease. His condition could not have been helped by his long-run performance as a public scold and Malaprop, whose every appearance was good for scatology and demonology, cracks and castigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Lad from Gourtloughera | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Author Mackay, a 21-year-old British girl who shares a drab walk-up over a London launderette with her 23-year-old draftsman husband, an infant daughter, her mother, a dog and three sullen cats is the most precocious and prolific ornament in a new British literary clique that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funny Sad Girl | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Strausz-Hupé came to the U.S. as a tutor-guardian to a no-good Salzburg aristocrat who was older than himself, worked in the art department of Marshall Field's in Chicago (landscapes and jolly monks), as a runner in Wall Street (with social weekends on Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unprogressive Pilgrim | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

In his original incarnation in the 4th century, Nicholas was not much of a saint. He accumulated virtue by giving gifts to children and marriageable maidens. But he was also a lean and righteous priest who dispensed his gifts with an eye for punishing the unworthy as well as rewarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Great Festival | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

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