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...know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big Eastern syndicate, you know." Even Snoopy knows. He has entered a "home lighting and display contest," which, its advertisement promises, will help him "find the true meaning of Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Security Is a Good Show | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...Agents Culp and Cosby do their best to protect the life of an arrogant mobster so he can inform on a Hong Kong racket. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 29, 1965 | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Wednesday, October 13 I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* The Chinese mafia is running a poppy-dust racket, and Spies Gulp and Cosby break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...uncounted number of minor imitations. Most unlikely is Italy's Monica Vitti, an intellectual type seen as a brooding nymph in The Red Desert. In a new British production, Vitti is Modesty Blaise of London comic-strip fame. Modesty has retired at 26 from the international smuggling racket to become a sort of freelance girl Friday for the British Secret Service. Armed with blouse-button bombs, cigarette lighters that turn out to be miniature flame throwers, and lipstick that untelescopes into a deadly arrow, Modesty outbombs and outshoots everybody, including that archcriminal Dirk Bogarde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The 007 Girls | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

...triumphs established him as the most promising young U.S. player in years. A policeman's son, he was born in Richmond, Va., grew up only a few yards from a tennis court, where he started batting tennis balls around as soon as he was able to hold a racket. In 1953, a Lynchburg physician, Walter Johnson, spotted Ashe as a potentially fine player. Dr. Johnson knows his tennis talent. It was he who helped steer Althea Gibson (TIME cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: The Ace | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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