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Word: playboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Playboy of the Western World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Such Talk | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...torrent of language, the beautiful cadences of the Irish tongue, that ripples and sometimes spews through John Millington Synge's 1907 comedy. Such talk has not been heard since the poets of the Dingle Bay, and it very nearly keeps this straightforward and modest little film version of Playboy out of trouble. But trouble there is. Siobhan McKenna, for all her gloriously peat boggy voice and her fine face with its mouth shaped like a shamrock leaf, is 20 years too old to be playing the fiery-tempered Pegeen opposite the likes of boyish Gary Raymond. A pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Such Talk | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

When he donned Ecuador's presidential sash in November 1961. Carlos Julio Arosemena's chances of wearing it long seemed woefully slim. Of his country's last 20 Presidents, only three served full terms. He himself was the playboy offspring of a rich Guayaquil banker, and rode into the vice-presidency in 1960 on the coattails of President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. He got the top job after Velasco Ibarra proved powerless to curb runaway inflation and left-led strikes, and was turned out by the military. Once in office, Arosemena baffled his countrymen by his politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecuador: Progress after a Coup | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

...Demagogue & Playboy." Powell's record is a many-splendored thing. There is. for example, his Puerto Rican-born third wife. Yvette. 31, whom he married in 1960 when she was a $3,000-a-year clerk on his staff. She is now on his payroll as a $12,974 secretary, and still draws the salary though she spends almost all her time in their $45,000 beach home in Puerto Rico. The Internal Revenue Service claims that Powell still owes $41,015 in income tax and penalties for 1949-55. And Powell is one of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: After Adam | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

Gently forced into his father's business after school days, Omar hated the lumber game, and he cost the firm thousands of pounds by extending credit only to dealers who needed it most. He became a Cairo playboy, good at billiards, unfaithful to his sports cars and always buying new ones. He played, too, with the theater, acting a little. Then one day he got a chance to audition for a leading role opposite Fatten Hamama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Arabian Knight | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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