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...retaliation, Duvalier's secret police slaughtered whole families and even distant relatives of the rebels. Drouin's family was marched naked through the streets of their home town and "removed" at a nearby army barracks. Meantime, Duvalier's rag-tag army was killing off the miniature force one by one. The government bragged that only Drouin and Numa remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: A Warning to Renegades | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...RAG DOLL (Philips). The Four Seasons resemble the Beach Boys in playing arrangements scored primarily for guitars and cash registers. Philosophically, however, they tend to be more conservative. It was they who warned Dawn to go away, and now along comes this sad rag doll. "I'd change her sad rags into glad rags if I could," sings the hero, "but my folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...shopgun usually hanging on the wall of Guest's garage. The shotgun used by Sims is his own gun. As soon as we got back to Guest's garage, both Myers and Sims cleaned the shotguns in the garage. They wiped the guns off with a rag. Guest asked what had happened, and Sims said, 'We shot one, but don't know if we killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: An Extreme Case | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Some hoodlums lobbed Molotov cocktails into the battalions of pursuing police. An organization called "Harlem Freedom Fighters" had helpfully issued a crude flier: "How to Make a Molotov Cocktail. Instructions: Any Empty Bottle, Fill With Gasoline, Use Rag as Wick, Light Rag, TOSS AND SEE THEM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: When Night Falls | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...hard to tell them apart until someone asked if the real Beatles would please sit down. The ones with the wax between their ears didn't move, and fans at London's Madame Tussaud's were finally sure which was which. Louis Armstrong knocked the rag mops off the top of Variety's singles chart last week, and the whisper was that they had passed their peak. But if their graven images at the world's foremost wax museum were not proof enough of their staying power, Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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