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...Lyndon Johnson pointed out, "will not in itself end the violence. But reason and experience tell us that it will slow it down ?that it will spare many innocent lives." Whatever the cost, it would be worth it to reduce the risk of killing a Kennedy, a King???or a kid gunned down by an ignorant hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...King???still partial to General Berenguer?made him Chief of the Casa Militar (Royal Military Household ). Many believe that the wily General managed in this intimate post to sow suspicion, then hate, between King and Dictator. The seed has been four years in sprouting ?and economic factors have been at least as potent as intrigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Happy Man! | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...LOVE OF THE KING???Oscar Wilde?Putman ($1.50). Oscar O' Flahertie Wills Wilde once meditated writing a novel "as beautiful and as intricate as a Persian praying rug." He would spend hours at the Middle Temple and in a punt on the Thames absorbing atmosphere from a certain distinguished barrister, a Mr. Chan Toon, whose "long and luminous" converse ran much on the exotic customs of his native country, Burmah. Mrs. Chan Toon was a childhood friend of the poet, and one day, having neglected to acknowledge a book she had sent him, he despatched to her, not a novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Fairy Play | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

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