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...course, she gets her killer. What's more, she almost gets Robert Morley, a member of the local hunt who admires her seat and suggests that she "keep her saddle" at his house. The heroine says neigh, and at the fade, after calmly collaring a maniac with a homicidal hatpin, she prissily explains why she cannot marry him: "My dear man, I do not approve of blood sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rutherford Rides Again | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...meaningful--or rather, each means far to much. The first approach, for example, can lead directly to the authorization of certain military aid programs whose well-publicized results are to encourage powerful military elites or rulers in some countries (like Pakistan or Argentina) and to offend other governments in neigh-boring countries (like Afghanistan or Thailand). It can also lead to Congressional veto of funds whose usefulness in the immediate bipolar cause is hardly obvious. The second approach has the advantage of subtly prodding the guilt-consciousness of Representatives or their constituents. But the Congress has sufficient sophistication to realize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foreign Aid Revolt | 10/2/1962 | See Source »

...Macaroni up to the French doors of the executive office so the President could take a look at Son John Jr., 14 months old, being held on the pony's back. Grinning broadly, the President came out, off handedly invited Macaroni into his office. The pony said neigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Simply Everywhere | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

After awakening Asia's neutrals last year by its invasion of Tibet and its arrogant claims to territory all along Tibet's southern borders, Red China has been working overtime lately to put its neigh bors back to sleep. In January, Red China agreed to recognize the traditional (but never actually marked) McMahon Line as its common border with Burma. Last week Red China agreed to establish a joint committee to delineate with Nepal its boundary with Tibet. Until the committee completes its work, both nations agreed to "ensure tranquillity" by refraining from sending troops within 20 kilometers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Self-Invited Guest | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them." He titled the work Enthusiasm, and described the typical "enthusiastic" movement as beginning with "an elite of Christian men and (more importantly) women" trying to live closer to the Holy Spirit than their neigh- bors. "More and more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while you hold your breath and turn away your eyes in fear, the break comes; condemnation or secession, what difference does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Witty Monsignor | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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