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...civil rights leaders want to-to throw the students out of the movement. The little conflicts are inevitable. They arise as part of a shift of emphasis from the legal area to nonviolent direct action. These students are helping to deliver the rights that have been declared. We must overlook their impatience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Confused Crusade | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...Affairs, added the accusation that Katanga was waging a "clever big-money campaign" through a Manhattan-based Belgian public relations man named Michel Struelens, had spent $140,000 in 15 months "dispensing a string of myths" designed to make Tshombe look good in American eyes. (The accusation seemed to overlook the fact that the sum in question is hardly big money in Manhattan's public relations world, and that a great many Americans are pro-Katanga without any help from political pressagents.) Chief culprits in the whole mess, said Rowan, were the big Belgian-run mining complex, Union Mini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Unsafe Little Kingdom | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...real erotic beauty of Model Marola Witt will be as anonymous as ever after TIME'S microscopic photograph of her [Dec. 22]. We susceptible men see the girl-goddess inside all those high-fashion cetups. We don't overlook her familiar long finders. !- n;j le^s, sleek brows, tiny nose, and hoyden's smile. REID GARDNER JR. Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 29, 1961 | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

Monro noted a "great generosity of spirit" among the undergraduates concerned with Project Jarba, and said many students, including a number of Jews, "have urged us to be broad-minded enough to overlook this...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Faculty Committee Votes Down PBH Project Jarba | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Even if it were possible to disregard the ineffable cliche quality of Inge's screenplay, it would not be possible to overlook Natalie Wood's abysmal acting. If Sandra Dee stands at the nadir of movie acting, then Miss Wood sits on her shoulders. Her only commendable scenes are those in which she runs through the grass or jumps up and down gleefully with her girlfriends. When it comes to words or sentences, she does not succeed so well...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Splendor in the Grass (Alas) | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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