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...noisiest weekend in Rabaul since 1943, when U.S. bombers flattened the South Pacific town. Seemingly bent on the same sort of destruction, rival tribesmen swarmed into the two-acre market square, wrecked the open-air benches piled with produce, belted one another, battered police cars, beat up the native constabulary and shoved a fire engine over a four-foot bank. It all began when, in the midst of a jostling market crowd, a Sepik tribesman pinched the stern of a shapely Tolai tribeswoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Britain: Stern Affair | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...until 1931, when he was 27, that he finally made up his mind to take up art seriously. In 1936, while the art of social protest seemed the noisiest thing around, Greene became head of a new little society called American Abstract Artists. His early work was geometrical, "rational, impersonal, almost mathematical"; but it did not stay that way for long. The geometry had a way of resembling a hard-edged landscape or interior. By the mid '40s, shredded bits of the human figure began to appear. The square and the rectangle had become a prison: "I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Magic Ambiguity | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...even the fans of Ohio and Kansas will admit that the biggest, noisiest and best basketball state of them all is Indiana, where every boy seems to be born with a hook shot and a stutter-step dribble. No one in Indiana sees anything odd about the fact that the gym in Huntingburg holds 6,300 persons, although the town's total population is 4,000. Folks from out of town just naturally want to drive in to see the games. Each March, Indiana explodes in the wildest high school tournament in the nation-four frenzied weekends of play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Graceful Giants | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Some of the noisiest protesters at the U.N. of other people's freedom denied are. in their own homelands, unwilling to allow their newspapers to report fact and truth. Indonesia has reared an imposing machine, involving agencies called Paperpu, Paperda and Perperti, which comb the slightest intransigence from the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Forces of Darkness | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...away, a truck barreling along Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway pushed the needle up to 91 decibels -which is still twelve decibels lower than an accelerating Lexington Avenue bus in midtown Manhattan. At 92 decibels, New York's Times Square is probably the world's noisiest intersection; London's Oxford Circus registers 87, and Paris' Place de la Madeleine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Noise Haters | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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