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...world's greatest orator since the retirement of Winston Churchill is the tall, lumbering man with the look of a nearsighted llama who is President of France. Last week Charles de Gaulle sat down before TV cameras and addressed a message to his people in prose no other leader can match. He began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Offer to Algeria | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

American Odyssey. Why has the television western far surpassed the popularity of its previous incarnations in the dime novel, the tent show, the wide screen? Why has it overtaken the space cowboys, the precinct operas and the llama dramas? Says ABC Program Director Thomas W. Moore: "The western is just the neatest and quickest type of escape entertainment, that's all." But few are willing to let it go at that. Parents and professional worriers are concerned about the violence and sadism in the horse opera. Psychoanalysts are looking for sex symbols (all those guns, of course), Oedipal patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble. Like rabbits, Tibetans are pastoral, non-aggressive. Unlike rabbits and Chinese, Tibetans would not score highly in any "survival of the fittest" struggle among cultures. "Our religion is going," our race is going," says Gayalo Thondap, a brother of the Dalai Llama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Himalaya Lullaby | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

Among the foreign delights served for the special Sunday lunch were Drained Crane Brains with Diced Sequoia Leaves from Zanzibar, and Lamprey Slice Floated on Essence of Llama Leaves from the Fiji Islands. The menu advertised Caribbean Delight with Holy Rolls for breakfast today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House Gives New Exotic Dinners | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perigord Between His Hands | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

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