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...headliner. "Well, look me over," said Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 46. "I didn't get dressed to go unnoticed." There was a wave of admiring laughter. His artist's hands reached forward to better display his ruffled shirt cuffs, his diamond studs, his jewelled butterfly bow tie. And lest anyone worry, he assured the house, "Actually, I never wear clothes like this offstage-oh, no, I'd be picked up for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: What Ever Happened To Buster Keys? | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...intuitive, charismatic prophet who threw open the windows and doors of the church to let in fresh air without worrying about?or even fully understanding?the consequences. By contrast, Paul is a detached and painstakingly analytical technician who has left the windows open?but who keeps checking the thermometer lest any cold drafts seep in. Pius was one of Catholicism's great teachers, whose irrepressible flow of decisive allocutions ranged learnedly from astronomy to midwifery. Paul, who sees more than 1,000,000 visitors a year and delivers as many as eight speeches a day has matched Pius' rapid pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Papacy: Reluctant Revolutionary | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...freelance photographer who went to Patna to snap pictures of the Ganges River for a U.S. magazine was arrested and jailed because the police, who had never seen equipment as sophisticated as his 200-mm. telephoto lens, thought it was an aerial camera. In Bombay, nocturnal cremations were banned lest they serve as fiery beacons for enemy aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Ending the Suspense | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice to allow for quiet nights lying at anchor in secluded coves. If the new yachtsman wants to go for a cruise, he must plot his course from one electrical outlet to another, lest his TV dinners defrost, his ice cubes melt, and his electrical toilet break down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Plug-In Boats | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...accept the strings," says Rabbi Robert Kahn of Houston's Temple Emanu-El. "I don't want the Government to dictate policy in my church or synagogue." Chicago's Bishop Montgomery, who basically favors church-state cooperation, nonetheless says that there should be "watchful vigilance," lest the church become "just another social agency." The Rev. Dean Kelley of the National Council of Churches also worries that U.S. Christianity may become so involved in social projects that it runs the risk of becoming just another client of government. "The greatest function of the modern church," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church & State: A Coalition of Conscience & Power | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

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