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Sipping white rum and pure syrup poured over ice, Martinique's mulatto intellectuals last week argued politics in Fort-de-France's breezy cafes, but the politics were French rather than Caribbean. Over breakfasts of cafe creme avec croissants, citizens of Pointe-a-Pitre, commercial center of Guadeloupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH WEST INDIES: Eyes on Paris | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Traffic Hazard. In Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., the city council politely asked policemen not to double-park while writing out parking tickets.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

With the possible exception of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Russia's Bolshoi Ballet is the most extravagantly praised and least frequently viewed wonder of the world. The company's triumphant London visit three years ago (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956) marked its first appearance on a Western stage. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bolshoi at the Met | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

¶ In Grosse Pointe, Mich., Judy Devlin, 23-year-old Baltimore schoolteacher and daughter of Former World Champion J. Frank Devlin, drubbed all opponents to win the U.S. open badminton singles for the fourth straight year, in the final allowed her opponent only a single point.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Since the capital city of Pointe Noire is in the hands of a tribe allied to Socialist Opangault's loyal followers, the M'Boshi, the abbe hastily got the seat of government moved to Brazzaville. There he somehow managed to increase his majority in the Parliament from one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO REPUBLIC: On Their Own | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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