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Such bureaucratic tinkering, of course, will not get at the root of the problem: the need to raise agricultural yields through modern methods. The U.S.'s Ford Foundation and the Agency for International Development (AID) have begun pilot programs designed to teach farmers better techniques. These programs have increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Too Many People, Too Little Food | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

In the "great tradition" of blues, torch and jazz singers that began with Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson leans toward the left wing, where pop meets jazz, a translator of popular standards into the jazz idiom. Her repertory is a treatise on variety and taste, spun by a voice of agile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: The Greatest Pretender | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

Frankly Speaking. Yet the girls are in many ways dissimilar. Lynda, tall (5 ft. 10 in.), brown-eyed and pleasingly dimpled, leans to scholastic interests, knocked down three As and two Bs as a college freshman last year. Beamed Lyndon, "That means more to me than anything." She is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Yes, My Darling Daughters | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

The Pink Panther. "We must find that woman," declares Peter Sellers. For emphasis, he briskly spins a large globe, then absentmindedly leans on it to be sent spinning to the floor. As a twittery, accident-prone French detective, Sellers trips over carpets, steps into a Stradivarius, and pratfalls through love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Has Skis, Needs Lift | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

McCarthy and Welch were only the leaders of the battle: some of the most vivid scenes center around their allies, cohorts, and lieutenants. Ever present beside McCarthy, sitting close at his elbow and whispering constantly in his ear, is one of the strangest participants, Roy M. Cohn. In one scene...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Point of Order | 2/15/1964 | See Source »

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