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Bombs for Christmas. Foremost among the convicted Spearmen were Nelson Mandela, 45, the "Black Pimpernel," who led South Africa's Special Branch cops a merry chase before his capture two years ago, and Walter Sisulu, 52, bearded official of the banned African National Congress. For more than nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Avoiding Martyrdom | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Philadelphia's twelve-year-old playground program has cost $30 million, is generally acknowledged to be the most successful in the country. No two of the city's 347 recreational facilities are identical: one has a series of concrete castles, one a squirrel house, another a spray pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Way Out to Play | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Parrish's gnomes and damsels, straight out of King Arthur and tempered by romantic Pre-Raphaelite gentility, adorned the covers of Collier's, Century and Scribner's. His best-known commission (around $50,000) was a 28-ft.-long mural of Old King Cole for the merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illustrators: Grand-Pop | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Kapo examines in excruciating detail the plight of women prisoners in a Polish concentration camp during World War II. Like all recitals of Nazi horrors, this Italian-made film, dubbed in English, is often stark and terrifying, and Director Gillo Pontecorvo gives his best scenes a look of grainy newsreel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Behind Barbed Wire | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Burns liked earthy humor for its own sake, and he transcribed in abundance the scabrous folk songs he heard from his countrymen, added more that he composed himself. But also, as The Merry Muses makes startlingly clear, he scrubbed and reworked some of these materials to create some of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bawdy Scot | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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