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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hire the best men he could and engage them in what amounted to a continuous dialogue. The degree of autonomy he gave his editors and the interplay of ideas he encouraged was a constant source of amazement to any outsider who encountered it. The late Aga Khan once offered Luce his memoirs for publication-gratis-in LIFE. He was startled when Luce said he would have to pass the offer along to LIFE's managing editor, and bewildered when the answer came back: No, thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Staff: Mar. 10, 1967 | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

Died. Mir Osman AH Khan Bahadur, 84, Nizam of Hyderabad, Eastern potentate and ruler of Hyderabad's 16 million, said to be the" world's richest man, with about $2 billion in gold, jewelry and art treasures, until Indian troops ended his rule in 1948, forcing him to accept a meager $900,000 yearly allowance, most of which he spent to support courtiers, bodyguards, concubines, servants and some 2,000 legitimate and illegitimate Nizam children, while he himself lived like a miser as a matter of personal choice, reputedly even darning his old socks; of influenza; in King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 3, 1967 | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...begins at home for Lady Bird Johnson. She's proved that handsomely already by garlanding many a nook and cranny of Washington with daffodils and cherry trees. Now her Committee for a More Beautiful Capital has come up with one of the more ambitious beautification schemes since Kubla Khan landscaped Xanadu. Conceived by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin, the master plan, to be executed with some $15 million in public and private contributions, would turn the city's labyrinthine back alleys into pedestrian greenways or community plazas, vacant lots into vest-pocket parks, and dreary asphalt into brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 20, 1967 | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

Coat hangs on a double frame-up. A dumb penguin of a waiter (Roddy Mc-Dowall), who wants to cloak the cipher of his existence with something or other, answers an advertisement for an astra khan coat. The man selling the coat is a criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Crime | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...also becoming addicted to the stars. A favorite society astrologer is lissome "Cappy" Badrutt, the California-born wife of the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, who has done horoscopes for Rita Hayworth, Paris Vogue Editor-in-Chief François de Langlade, the Aga Khan, Mrs. Herbert von Karajan, and Baroness Thyssen. Cappy says that a growing number of businessmen are also interested in the practice, because "in these times of uncertainty, people are groping for an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Back in with the Black Arts | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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