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...Army, ex-Sergeant Elvis Presley unlimbered his hips and returned to work. The sideburns were gone, but otherwise it was the same old Elvis, and he had RCA Victor crowing about a record 1,275,077 advance orders of his first postmilitary disk, Stuck on You. Already on TV tape was a slight spectacular that Elvis recently made with Crooner Frank Sinatra for a trifling $125,000. He could expect more petty cash from Stuck on You and its memorable lyrics. Sample: Ah'm gonna stick like glue-stick because Ah'm stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...very pleased. It's good to have another singer in the family, because I'm getting tired." Then Nancy winged east to New Jersey, where she was on hand at McGuire Air Force Base early one morning, when Mr. Rock 'n' Roll himself, Sergeant Elvis Presley, got off a plane from West Germany to be mustered out of the Army after a two-year draftee stint. Nancy was indulging no secret crush on Elvis, just helping build up a TV singeroo slated for early May. By then, Elvis will again be supporting himself in the civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 14, 1960 | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...first gingerly experiment with popular elections since suspending his country's parliamentary regime 15 months ago, Pakistan's Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan last week got an Elvis Presley-like response. Functioning as a kind of electoral college, close to 80,000 recently elected village councilmen were allowed to vote yes or no to the question: "Have you confidence in the President, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan?" No less than 95.6% put their approving mark beside a smiling multi-clad picture of the field marshal. Those who did not trust the field marshal had the choice of checking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: 95.6% Love Ayub | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...novel in 20 years-but he has read practically every nonfiction work that he thought would be valuable in improving the way he does his job. This self-education has helped make Reston a reporter who can write well on almost any subject from the public appeal of Elvis Presley to the pitfalls of relating contemporary America to the decline of Rome. Says Managing Editor Catledge: "If he called me and said Tosca is coming to Washington and I want to cover it, I'd expect a goddam good story from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man of Influence | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...Elvis Presley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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