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Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Teeners' Hero | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

A rare smile lit the stony face of South Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister Johannes Strydom last week. After five years of relentless campaigning, this taut, thin-lipped, back-country lawyer and ostrich farmer had won the parliamentary fight to establish white supremacy in a land of 2,600...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Party at Groote Schuur | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Candidates who have the proverbial "nose for news" will find the newsboard competition to their liking, and will have an opportunity to match wits on almost equal terms with some of the University's most tight-lipped administrators.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Spring Comp Opens | 2/7/1956 | See Source »

A crisis began to simmer a fortnight ago, involving Lott's right to discipline an outspoken golpista army colonel. This dispute turned into a decisive test of strength between Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Caf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Preventive Revolution | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

While Amory was speaking his piece in Manhattan, the duke's secretary in London issued a stiff-upper-lipped statement: "Mr. Cleveland Amory . . . has now given all the assistance the duchess felt was of value, and his employment has therefore been terminated." Next day, when Amory's lament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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