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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda broadside. At an airfield on Taiwan, a black U-2 reconnaissance plane with a Nationalist Chinese pilot at the controls soars off the runway, bound for skies 15 miles above Red China on a photographic mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Silent Service | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...improvise, and to the plays of Dramatist Peter Weiss, who allows theatrical directors to stage his dramas in widely varying versions and lengths. Still, it would take more talent than the average collector possesses to "participate" in one of Fahlstrom's masterpieces, Dr. Schweitzer's Last Mission. It consists of eight painted metal boxes, ten cutout boards and 50 magnetic cutouts, many of them hung by nylon threads from the walls and ceiling. It took Fahlstrom three years to dream it up. And for the present show, where it occupies most of a room, the artist needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Games of Art | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...October by buying troubled Paramount Pictures in a $165 million stock swap deal, waded in farther. G&W agreed to take over Hollywood's Desilu Productions, the TV film maker controlled by Comedienne Lucille Ball, for $17 million in stock. Desilu produces four TV series (The Lucy Show, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and You Don't Say), rents production facilities to 13 others, including I Spy and Corner Pyle. All of this earned Desilu $734,000 on revenues of $18.8 million in fiscal 1966. Charles G. Bluhdorn, 40, the Vienna-born immigrant who whipped G&W into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acquisitions: Into New Territory | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...love Hitler, I can't love at all," later, in 1958, for sailing through the U.S. Pacific nuclear zone while tests were under way, and most recently as one of three clergymen received by Ho Chi Minh during their January "peace mission" to Hanoi; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 24, 1967 | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Land Surrender. Although virtually all African leaders are products of mission schools, many of them are now suspicious of Christian-supervised education. Uganda Strongman Milton Obote, who was educated by Protestants, has already nationalized all missionary schools; religious instruction is included in the curricula, but the churches claim that many government-appointed teachers refuse to teach it. Tanzania last month demanded that missions give up unused landholdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missions: Africanization or Exile | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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