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...body slumped to the left; his right leg shot up over the car door. A woman close by at the curb saw it. "My God!" she screamed. "He's shot!" Blood gushed from the President's head as it came to rest in Jackie's lap. "Jack!" she cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Assassination | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...down over his own ears. Sister Caroline beat him up the ramp of the family plane to greet her mother, but John Jr. did it the showman's way -scrambling up on all fours. He even got to ride all the way home in his mother's lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Arabian Nights | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...show itself is really an animated cartoon that uses live people, chiefly Ray Walston as a professor of anthropology from one of the numerous universities on Mars, lately arrived by saucer. He disappears at whim like Topper, and he sprouts antenna horns that boing amusingly. Younger cats should lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Judgment on the New Season | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...shock wave of horror raced through Saigon last week. In a small park inside Saigon's main traffic circle, a young Buddhist priest at noon squatted cross-legged in the traditional lotus position, pulled a plastic container of gasoline out of his cloth bag and soaked his lap. Then he struck a match to his brown robes. Flames burst over him. Grimacing but uttering no sound, the monk shriveled into a charred skeleton. After three minutes, his arms stiffened before him, and he pitched over. It was the sixth suicide by fire in the Buddhist struggle against President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Flames & Music | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...147th lap, a huge puff of smoke belched from Gurney's Lotus. A camshaft cover had burst and oil was seeping into his engine block. That was it. With the last Lotus limping into the pits, the race belonged to the dogged Foyt. At the checkered flag, he had averaged 101 m.p.h. for 200 laps around the tiny Trenton track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Grudge Match at Trenton | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

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