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LeRoi Jones, 31, is no relation to the Emperor Jones. But he would like to be. He noisily nurses plans for a fascist Black Nation in Harlem; he howls destruction on all his foes, chief among whom are the Rev. Martin Luther King, the American Negro middle class, and absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

What of the world? Usual accusations to the contrary, the U.S. has been more spectacularly patient in its foreign relations since World War II than any other great power in history. Through billions of dollars of foreign aid and a generation of troops stationed in Europe and Korea, through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON PATIENCE AS AN AMERICAN VIRTUE | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

If so, they should be happy. A federal grand jury in New York indicted four pacifists for violating a 1965 law that prohibits the willful destruction of draft cards. If convicted, they could be imprisoned for five years and fined $10,000. The foursome, accused of burning their cards during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protest: Advise & Dissent | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

A Blow from Business. Most of all, the candidates hammered at De Gaulle's obstruction of European unity and his intransigence on the Common Market, the wellspring of the Continent's prosperity. Said Moderate Lecanuet, whose campaign star is rising fastest: "French initiatives have almost destroyed the Common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Shedding the Shell | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Died. Natalie Dunfee Kalmus, 87, co-developer in 1914, with her late Chemist-Husband Herbert Kalmus, of Technicolor, first and still most widely used color film process, who served as color director (1915-49) when Technicolor had a virtual monopoly of the field, turning out such early successes as Gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 26, 1965 | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

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