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New York! At first I was confused by your beauty, by those great golden long-legged girls. So shy at first before your metallic eyes, your frosted smile So shy. And the anguish in the depths of skyscraper streets Lifting eyes hawkhooded to the sun's eclipse. Sulphurous your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHERE GOD IS BLACK | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

Boys in Baggies. The true surfer is scornful of the "ho-daddies" (a gibe of undetermined origin) and "grem-mies" (gremlins, usually girls), those hangers-on who may never get wet behind the ears as far as surfing goes but like to immerse themselves in the dense jargon of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Surfs Up! | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Jane Van Duser is outstanding as Molly Plummer, the skeletal fashion editor of Vogue. Throughout much of the show she simply sits on her three-legged stool, like the narrator of Our Town, and pronounces sarcastic judgements on life. But she really perks up in her second act pantomine with...

Author: By Constance E. Lawn, | Title: Rodgers' Newest: 'No Strings' | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

On the third day, India's Aruna Asaf Ali charged China with blocking all efforts to settle the Himalayan war with India. Out of their seats bounced two diminutive Chinese delegates who legged it to the platform in slit skirts to demand time for rebuttal, their heated words duly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Women's Club (Marxist Model) | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

The automobile at the head of the procession of saffron-robed Buddhist monks in Saigon suddenly choked to a stop at an intersection. The occupants of the car lifted its hood as chanting priests began forming a circle seven or eight deep around the vehicle. Prayer beads clutched in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Trial by Fire | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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