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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This oddly assembled, but imaginatively conceived country depends more than anything else on the popularity and sound sense of the Tunku, whom Hong Kong Bureau Chief Charles Mohr describes as "one of the most relaxed, cheerful and modestly friendly cover subjects" he has ever interviewed. Describing one youthful escapade, Tunku commented, "I'm a lazy man." An aide watched in evident distress as Mohr wrote it down. Tunku merely chuckled: "It's too late now." A man so ready to concede his own mistakes, Reporter Mohr concluded, could count on justified pride in many achievements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 12, 1963 | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

Frozen & Hammered. Timex has tapped the mass market for watches in much the same way as paperback publishers have for books. When jewelers spurned it because of its low 50% markup (100% for other watches), U.S. Time Sales Vice President Robert E. Mohr, 42, set up displays in drugstores, department stores and cigar stands, featuring a device that dunked a ticking watch into water and banged it with a hammer. The public really began to take notice when Mohr moved the torture test to television, shaking Timexes in automatic paint mixers, freezing them in blocks of ice, and tying them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Watches for an Impulse | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

Hong Kong Bureau Chief Charles Mohr, 33. who spent two years until last August as New Delhi bureau chief and traveled to practically every part of the subcontinent, flew back to work on this week's Nehru cover story; as he was packing in Hong Kong, his nine-year-old daughter Gretchen asked: "Why do you have to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 30, 1962 | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Visiting again with Nehru. Reporter Mohr found him changed: "He looked a little more tired and aged than when I had last seen him in April. But at the same time he seemed more sturdy in personality than I ever remembered him in the past. The very fact that he was less sure of his old ideas seemed to make him more single-minded on the one main point: that India will endure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 30, 1962 | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Jungle Action. Meanwhile, the bitter, dirty guerrilla struggle continues. Last week, after accompanying a combat patrol, TIME Correspondent Charles Mohr described a typical action of the ugly little war in the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Situation: Better | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

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