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The Prince should not have been so surprised. During his Red China visit, he had yielded to the blandishments of his hosts to remark at a state banquet that "it is impossible to defeat the imperialists if one accepts compromise with them"-which in the context of the Sino-Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Big Puffs & Old Paper | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Never Again. Confident of getting three more state senators-but not six -on his side, Wallace decided next to challenge the senate's two-thirds majority rule. His supporters petitioned e Alabama Supreme Court to lower the bothersome requirement to three-fifths, or 21 votes. This maneuver was quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: Wallace's Pottage | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Brazil's chief of state is a patient man, but this was too much. In a series of meetings with his top military advisers, Castello Branco reconfirmed that most of Brazil's military is solidly be hind his government. At one point there was talk of indicting Lacerda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Answer for a Critic | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

The Refugees. Castro is still capable of considerable maneuver-as well as enormous mischief. In his speech he said that it was the U.S., not he, who shut off the flow of refugees. "We never closed the ports," he thundered. "The imperialists closed all the routes, and for three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Petrified Forest | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Neither. The deed of sale is a ritual that the rabbis carry out every seventh year on behalf of Orthodox Jewish farmers who intend to observe Shemittah, the sabbatical "year of release" that began last week on Rosh Hashanah. During the year, according to the Law, all land owned by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jews: Shemittah & Sham | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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