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Winston Churchill celebrates his 89th birthday; greetings pour in from all over the civilized world and Ireland. The principality of Gambezi breaks off from the Gabon Republic and is proclaimed the world's newest and smallest state. The influx of diplomats trebels its population...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/7/1963 | See Source »

...foreign policy seems increasingly to be a neutralism in favor of the Communists. Over the past ten years, the U.S. has pumped $1.4 billion worth of aid into Brazil. Unless Brazil makes a genuine effort to solve its problems, said Bobby Kennedy, the U.S. can hardly be expected to pour more millions into an economy heading for chaos and a government catering to Yankee baiters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: A Kennedy Comes Calling | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...right. The trend against the party organizations was so strong, he notes, that the Independent candidate was forced to explain tendentiously that his label indicated merely that he was the most independent candidate in the race. Most voters still don't think of de Gaulle's Union pour la nouvelle Republique (UNR) as a real party...

Author: By Lawrence W. Frinberg, | Title: Elections in Chanzeaux | 12/18/1962 | See Source »

...thing to drink if you want to belong to the Oberen Zehntausend [upper ten thousand]," explained a Bonn bartender. Smart Italians ask for their "ooeesky" Us do (straight) or con ghiàccio (on the rocks), and hosts pour their guests hefty slugs in large glasses, which are then nursed for the rest of the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: What Ever Happened to the Martini? | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Modern Sunday school has attempted to adjust to modern students, whose minds have been honed on improved public schooling. "You can't sit them on a chair and pour it in any more," warns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Look, Dad, I'm Leaving | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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