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Transported to China, Hathaway watch es rice farmers Maothing revolutionary rubrics, has an interview with the chair man - a benign, ping-pong playing chap - and cons his way to the secret for mula. All the while, beeping and honk ing, he is being tracked like a satellite, his pulse rate and adrenal flow monitored back in England by a one-eyed, three-star general (Arthur Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Chained to an Enzyme | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...Nasser no longer shows the strain of his darkest days in the aftermath of the 1967 war. He appears robust, cured of a reported circulatory ailment by Russian doctors, who ordered him to quit smoking. He has resumed playing tennis and Ping-Pong and, he tells friends, has recently taken to reading the Old Testament "to better understand the Jewish mind." His living room in the Cairo district of Manshiet al Bakri is filled with pictures of world leaders, many of whom he has outlasted in power, from Indonesia's Sukarno to Lyndon Baines Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE PAINFUL PRESIDENCY OF EGYPT'S NASSER | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...inhalation of Vienna" at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. Merrill's Turandot was stylized in the sparse formal motions of the ice-cold princess and her hapless suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, was mounted as a fantasy; it captured the magic of the evil nurse, the semi-spirit world of the empress and the human world of the dyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's Tightrope Walker | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...Cheat an Honest Man--Among the funnier Fields pictures, this one offers him as a circus impressario with a desirable daughter and debts. The Lake Titicaca episode and the ping-pong game are pure genius. At the SYMPHONY II, 262 Huntington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...best moments came neither out of the printed page nor the TV workshop. For its back-of-the-book finale, it showed portions of the Saul Bass documentary Why Man Creates. To probe the provocative title theme, Bass, a master of the film short, stunningly mixed cartoons, bouncing ping-pong balls and interviews with scientists. Produced for Kaiser Aluminum, the film hardly needed a magazine format for its television premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Affairs: Newsmagazine of the Air | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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