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...Isle of Capri to shop and stroll through the main square and its sea of cafe tables. Then back to Ravello-and farewell. Crowds lined the streets, from the villa to the town square, to wave addio. But for all her happiness to be home, the melody could only linger on: Don't forget this little town Beautiful, simple and kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Don't Forget... | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...when the guests are young, eager and obviously admiring, the President is apt to linger a bit longer, to say something extra that really matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Don't Sit on the Sidelines | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

This simple tale is told with extreme sophistication of style. Cameraman George Ancona produces images of poetic loveliness-but the eye is not allowed to linger on the loveliness. The amateur actors are cast with acuity and seduced into expressiveness-but the eye is not allowed to ponder their expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On an Island of the Mind | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...hand to impart a royal flavor was Princess Margaret, a tear glistening in her eye as the Union Jack was hauled down for the last time. By sending the Queen's sister to the ceremony, Britain made it warmly plain that no hard feelings linger from Jamaica's abrupt rejection last year of the London-fostered West Indies Federation. Independent Jamaica has been assured a place in the Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamaica: Lowering the Union Jack | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

With that, he put his economy-size package at the door of Congress. It contained a siren song the words of which would probably be forgotten, but the melody would linger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: The Big, Economy-Size Package | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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