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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But South Africa found an unexpected and outspoken defender in Britain's flamboyant Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, who was on a visit to Johannesburg. Monty told reporters he found it "very curious" that the U.S. had voted to condemn apartheid, because "it has much the same racial setup inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Condemned by the U.N. | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

But the Cambridge-educated King, brooding in his bungalow palace on a hilltop near Kampala on his birthday eve, had other things on his mind. Summoning Uganda's Anglican Bishop Leslie Brown and a selected group of government ministers and relatives, the King presented the testimony of palace servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUGANDA: The Troubles of the King | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Cornered by an aggressive newsman in the lobby of London's Ritz Hotel, Oilman Jean Paul Getty (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) was persuaded to offer some reasons why the life of a billionaire is not roses all the way. "Quite a bother," to Getty, 66, and an altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Taking her first notice in her "My Day" column of Congressman-Son James's recent book, Affectionately, F.D.R., Eleanor Roosevelt took Jimmy gently to task for rapping onetime White House Housekeeper Henrietta Nesbitt. "Whatever Mrs. Nesbitt did," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt, "she did under my direction. I remember feeding everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Former Democratic Vice President John Nance Garner, who once hoped aloud that he would live to be 92 (so that he could claim as many years as a private citizen as in public life), turned 91. But that was too close to 92, so he has now raised his goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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