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Though their relaxed attitude toward sex shocks some Westerners,* most visitors agree that the pleasantest thing in Laos is the Laotian people. Laotian girls have oval faces, high cheekbones, blue-black hair, shyly flirtatious eyes, and the world's smallest waists. The men are short-statured, sturdy-legged, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LAOS: THE UNLOADED PISTOL | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Los Angeles Lawyer Alphonse Matthews, a self-styled beatnik named Eric ("Big Daddy") Nord turned the joint into a coffeehouse. By midsummer, "the Gas House" was in full swing, and the beats pushed in to make the scene, as they say. A jukebox blared the beatniks' Three Bs: Bach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Bam; Roll On with Bam! | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Blond, long-legged (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) "Opie" Weyland, California-born Texas A. & M. graduate, made his first general's fame as head of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which supported General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army on its advance through France and Germany. High point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Interservice Affection | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

As the U.S.-Japanese swimming meets continued in Japan last week, coaches from Melbourne to New Haven stared in admiration at the record of a broad-shouldered, sturdy-legged Japanese college student named Tsuyoshi Yamanaka. Not only did Yamanaka break one world's record and help break a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fantastic! | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

With one sweep of the politician's practiced eye, Nixon sized up the situation: he was clearly getting the cool hello. On hand was a little group of welcomers from the U.S. embassy led by Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, and the 56 U.S. newsmen who had preceded Nixon by an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Better to See Once | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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