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...English friends after this period agree to voice all the truths about this question, I should agree." If any of Pineau's English friends were to speak up, it would have to be Eden-now the Earl of Avon-and Lloyd, and last week they both were keeping mum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: Some of the Truth | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Manchurian Candidate has Laurence Harvey as a brainwashed zombie, Angela Lansbury as his mum, Frank Sinatra as a good guy and Janet Leigh as his careful doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...fright. As Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 65, rode into Christchurch, New Zealand, a shot cracked somewhere behind the crowd. Police raced through the neighborhood until they found four young boys playing with a rifle that had discharged, slightly wounding a housewife in the crowd. Unruffled, the Queen Mum went trout fishing in Lake Wanaka, catching nothing, despite her fine fly-fisher's wrist. She did set some sort of local record as the only angler who ever waded in wearing hip boots, sports jacket, and a large string of pearls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...prompted both Fowler and Connor to hint that the Government may impose stronger curbs on private spending abroad-without indicating what they would be. In any case, the Administration is still leaning away from such emergency brakes as severe credit tightening or mandatory controls on foreign investment, is keeping mum on whether it may restrain U.S. tourist spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Vanishing Prospect | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...fact that he does not deign to confide his thoughts to anyone, least of all to his dim twin. The thoughts, anyhow, are nothing much, but when Waldo retires, he will maybe get around to collating notes for his novel-Tiresias as a Youngish Man-which he keeps in mum's old dress box. Tiresias was the shaman of Thebes, who had a prophetic gift as well as the characteristics of both sexes. Waldo gets into the spirit of the thing by putting on his dead mum's old ball dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shaman of Sarsaparilla | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

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