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Colonel Fontenele was only warming up. When he learned that parking violaters were escaping before the tow trucks arrived, he sent his men through downtown Rio to descend on the front tires of illegally parked cars, unscrew the valves-and pffft! "Vandalism," cried Rio papers in shocked unison, quoting eminent jurists' opinions that "Operation Pffft!" was illegal. "This campaign will continue until motorists begin to cooperate with the authorities," answered Fontenele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Pffft! | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

Died. Marshal Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev, 63, onetime (1949-57) chief of the Soviet Air Force, later (1957-59) boss of Aeroflot, the civil airline, a bomber pilot chosen by Stalin to develop a Red version of SAC in case the missiles went pffft, later picked by Khrushchev to make Aeroflot, world's biggest carrier, a Soviet showcase with monster TU-114 airliners, which turned out to be uneconomical passenger editions of the Bear bomber; somewhere in the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 11, 1963 | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Divorce-Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy-it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tin-typical Sicilian smoothie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

Divorce-Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy-it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tintypical Sicilian smoothie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 12, 1962 | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

CINEMA Divorce-Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy-it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tintypical Sicilian smoothie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 5, 1962 | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

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