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...encouraged to think otherwise by a second piece of asinine twaddle, again much closer to Lampy's norm. Two undergraduates find that Harvard's phantom colored paneler has murdered some Georgian architects. It's tough to imagine anyone cracking a smile over this insipid little soporific, except possibly Dean Sert...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: The Harvard Lampoon | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

Named in the suit, besides Rhadamés, are Brother Ramfis, 35, Sister Angelita, 24, and their mother, Maria, 58. It would probably take a battalion of accountants to unscramble all the secret Swiss bank accounts and phantom companies that hide the wealth. But from the looks of things, the Trujillos on the outside are missing a pretty good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exiles: The Trujillos Revisited | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...indulge in such barbarian ostentation as a limousine was hardly thinkable. Nonetheless, Mao has apparently decided to make the great leap forward in style. Peking has placed an order with Britain's decadent Rolls-Royce Ltd., for a $12,726 Silver Cloud Mark III and a $20,454 Phantom V. They should do a lot for his image at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, since with a little friendly assistance even the clock in a Rolls can be persuaded not to tick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...President, whose mortarcade had already toured commencements at Michigan, Texas, the Coast Guard Academy and the Lyndon B. Johnson High School, stood under rain-dripping poplars on the campus of Swarthmore College near Philadelphia to assail the "phantom fears" that a strong Federal Government is a threat to individual liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Mortarcade | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Goulart himself borrowed heavily from the bank and never to anyone's knowledge repaid a cruzeiro; the new government is drawing up a list of the loans for possible use in justifying confiscation of his property. More than 500 phantom employees have been found on the payroll of Goulart's Planalto and Alvorada palaces in Brasília-all hired by Jango. Government-paid employees worked on Goulart's ranches; the Brazilian air force built landing strips on them; the Fundação Brasil Central pitched in on construction work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: A Goulart Audit | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

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