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...Twain following the innocents abroad, set the Eton-collared little Lord Fauntleroys of late 19th century America against the Huckleberry Finn of then and all time. Like a big frog always about to make a prizewinning jump, Sam Clemens stood out against his background: as a young man with lean cheeks, darkish hair and misleadingly humorless eyes, or as a snow-headed Connecticut Yankee, strutting in the cap and gown he had worn when Oxford University conferred upon him a Litt. D.: "I like the degree-but I'm crazy about the clothes...
Marino Sik, 33, used to be a repairman for a Detroit gas company, has a wife, Carol, and a 20-month-old daughter, has built a three-sided log lean-to that fits snugly against his house trailer. A small generator powers his lights, a washing machine and hair clippers. Short of money last month, Sik worked off some of his winter's food bill by sled-hauling drums of gasoline (at $7.50 apiece) across the river, hopes to save enough money to get ten acres of land bulldozed by year's end (Alaska's homesteading laws...
...mouth of the Amazon. Morbidly afraid of dark rooms, elevators and airplanes, Niemeyer endured agony on his frequent plane trips to the capital ("It's shameful, but I can't help it"). He finally moved to Brasilia, where he dropped 19 Ibs. off an already lean frame...
...With this pipe I can lean over a typewriter and smoke won't get in my eyes." A pipe smoker of more regular habit, Correspondent Dudley Doust collected material on Bowman Gray and R. J. Reynolds during a 2½ week visit to Winston-Salem, N.C., was strafed so steadily with fresh cigarettes that he puffed down about a pack a day - "more than I've smoked since we made roll-your-owns out of cattails when I was a kid in Syracuse, New York." If the men who worked on TIME'S cover story are something...
When Spain's lean, ingratiating Prince Juan Carlos, 22, visited the U.S. in 1958, every political pundit and social gossipist hailed him as the man aging Dictator Franco had picked to some day become the King of Spain. All signs pointed that way. At Franco's invitation, he was in Spain studying at military academies while his father, Don Juan, 46, heir to the Bourbons and pretender to the empty throne, remained in self-imposed exile in Portugal. Only young Prince Juan Carlos dissented. "It is my father who is going to be "King," he insisted...