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It was a reception worthy of visiting royalty, and all for Muzyad Yacoub Kairouz. There was a red-carpet welcome at Beirut's airport, then a feast of roasted sheep, goat and chicken to the throb of drums and the jangle of tambourines in the mountain village of Hasroun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 11, 1962 | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Newman, as the young dog who is putting on the cat, creates a memorable portrait of a phony. Begley is pluperfect as the sort of jolly old political Santa who wouldn't harm a flea-he's much too busy squashing people. But the picture belongs to Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Putting on the Cat | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Belgian government has said nothing, it is an open secret in Washington that when Sabena's 707 nosed up sharply and fell in a whirling stall, its controls were found locked in full nose-up position.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Crash Detectives | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

The head of the clan was apparently an elderly farmer or trader; his sculpted face is creased with wrinkles, his lips slightly parted as if he were about to speak. A smirking, sharp-nosed woman may have been the farmer's wife, but whatever her identity, she had an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Family of Tuscania | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

It was the way in which President Kennedy brought up the subject of stockpiling that sent a shudder last week through metal centers from the aluminum mills of California to the copper mines of the Congo. In harsher language than he usually uses at his press conferences, the President implied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Piles & Politics | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

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