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...then, Elvis will again be supporting himself in the civilian style to which he is currently unaccustomed, collecting a cool $125,000 for a network appearance with Frankie. Elvis, proudly wearing medals for good conduct and marksmanship, promised that he will soon climb back into his gaudiest working mufti, agitate his pelvis as of yore ("If I stand still, I'm dead") and "never abandon rock 'n' roll as long as people keep appreciatin' it." But Army rigors had at least one benign effect upon him: he won't regrow his crazy sideburns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 14, 1960 | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...eyed spellbinder whose platform is austere conservatism. One afternoon last week the old soldier, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65, resigned as War Minister in order "to go into the arena with no privileges or priorities." Then the red-cheeked descendant of Dutch-English immigrants slipped into mufti in an adjoining room, walked out to a waiting Jeep, and drove off through popping firecrackers and a cheering crowd to his first political rally. The presidential race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Candidates | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...Swarthy One. Before the dust settled, the assailants had melted into the crowd and vanished with a practiced finesse that befitted their leader, a swarthy professional assassin who has been killing for hire for more than 20 years. A shadowy Palestinian once employed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Kassem's would-be killer, who is well known to the police, counts among his coups the shooting of an Arab sheik who had agreed to sell land to Jews and the murder of a British official on the steps of a church in Nazareth. Barred from several Arab countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Shots in the Street | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...Politician. Peppery Rick, trim in mufti, started right off lecturing the Kozlov party. "It is incumbent on all politicians and statesmen," said he, "to realize their great moral responsibility in handling a force" such as atomic energy. As the tour began, Rickover began stepping up the voltage. "Are you smart enough to understand everything I explain to you?" he asked. "Da," grinned Kozlov. Pointing out a relatively simple, 2,300-volt pump, Rickover cracked: "Even a politician can understand this." A few minutes later, without batting an eye, the admiral announced: "We can detect your bomb explosions." Kozlov guffawed. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Visit with a Hot Wire | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Force General Nathan Twining, his rakish fedora and hail-fellow grin somewhat more suggestive of a precinct boss on election night than a hard-working Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed up in mufti, as he often does, for a brass-tacks Monday conference with the President on military matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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