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...tribal puberty rite. The dancers scarcely ever touch each other or move their feet. Everything else, however, moves. The upper body sways forward and backward and the hips and shoulders twirl erotically, while the arms thrust in, out, up and down with the pistonlike motions of a baffled bird keeper fighting off a flock of attacking blue jays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Instant Fad | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...think the purpose of the College should be to train people for all matters and varieties of careers, whether in the Federal government, or as President of the United States, or as keeper of a zoo for rarefied animals," Elder said...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Bender, Elder Note Disagreement With Conant Report on Education | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...been a proud year for the boys of Lanfranc. a 700-student vocational high school in the sprawling London suburb of Croydon. Led by agile Wicket-keeper Trevor Cowdell, 15, and Captain-elect John Wells, 14. Lanfranc's cricket team was unbeatable, the best in all Surrey. Sixteen-year-old Reggie Chappie won a Surrey schoolboy boxing Championship. Fourteen-year-old Quentin Green made a memorably squeaky-voiced page in Lanfranc's production of Romeo and Juliet. But for 34 Lanfrancians, the best was yet to be: a school-sponsored camping trip in the rugged highlands of Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Last Holiday | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...would like to see every city adopt the plan. I don't like to see my taxes paid for children born out of wedlock"-I can only assume that the Senator does not agree with a moral code of long standing that we are our brother's keeper. In my opinion, utterance such as this not only pollutes the ''clear air of Arizona" but gives a fetid odor to America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...most Britons expected Queen Elizabeth II to award a title to the baby's commoner father, Antony Armstrong-Jones. But although she honored 2,300 of her subjects on last week's annual list-including a dance-band leader, a mailman, a motorcycle racer and a lighthouse keeper-there was nary a mention of the Queen's brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

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