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...Girl Named Tamiko is a Panavision melting pot. British Actor Laurence Harvey, who was born in Lithuania, plays a half-Russian, half-Chinese photographer in Tokyo who wants to go to the U.S. France Nuyen, who was born in Marseille of a French mother and a Chinese father, plays Tamiko, a highborn Japanese girl who wants Harvey. Martha Hyer, who is as American as a mink-lined raincoat in July, also wants Harvey, and so does Miyoshi Umeki, an honest-to-Buddha Japanese, who plays a Ginza B-girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: East Meets East | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...what John XXIII took to be a gesture of better relations between Rome and the Communist world, all of East Germany's and most of Yugoslavia's delegations appeared. Lithuania, a country that is mostly Catholic and has been cut off from Rome for years, sent Bishop Petras Mazelis. In the first official contact in five centuries between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, the Orthodox hierarchy in Moscow sent two observers. This break in Orthodox unity angered the Greek Orthodox hierarchy, made that church, which had been wavering, much more firm in its decision not to send observers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Council Opens | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Aviv airport, Soblen hailed a taxi, went to the seaside Savoy Hotel, showed the passport, got a room, and began making phone calls to cousins and childhood friends from his birthplace in Lithuania. When he tried one number-41614-he was told that it had been disconnected, and he shouted angrily at the hotel operator: "It's impossible! That's one number I must get!" Throughout the next day, he strolled the nearby streets, conferred with an attorney friend, and read the newspapers. Then, next morning, alerted by newspaper stories, three Israeli policemen knocked on his door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Spy Who Skipped | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...fail to see how the nations that recently met at Belgrade, Yugoslavia [Sept. 15], can call themselves "neutral" when they see colonialism in Algeria, Angola and Guantánamo Naval Base without also seeing it in Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Rumania, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Tibet, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania and Mongolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1961 | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism that crushed Hungary and swallowed up the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neutrals: Run for Cover | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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