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...Grey Spectrum. The leaders of the new Cuba have proved after 51 years in power that they can control Cuba. No one has yet proved that they can run it. Rationing and shortages have worsened to the point where an automobile tire now goes for $130 on the black market, the weekly coffee ration is down to 1½ oz. per person, and the monthly butter ration is ⅛ lb. per person. At Havana's Tropicana nightclub, the chorus is still leggy and kicking, but the food is bad and few Cubans can even afford the tips. A Coca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: View from Havana | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...this points toward an ideal envisioned by the late Learned Hand, the greatest U.S. judge who never sat on he Supreme Court. "If we are to keep our democracy," he said, "there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice." Knowledgeable lawyers would add that such rationing has a dangerous practical effect: the victims grow increasingly disrespectful of the police and the courts. But the new drive for equal justice also saddles the nation's 200,000 private-practice lawyers with the duty of fully defending more than 150,000 indigents a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Rising to the Defense | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...newly published French monograph, L'Exentération pelvienne, Dr. Brunschwig reports that no fewer than 116 of his 562 patients have lived five years or longer after the operation. Virtually all have been glad that they submitted to the extensive amputation, even though many have had to wear a bag strapped to their waists to collect urine and feces. Some have been able to work for years, with no outward sign of their condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Most Radical Operation | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...fortnight, French newspapers and art journals have been sputtering with rage. The ostensible rub, as summed up in the Paris newspaper Libeération, is that "a clique of dealers from overseas has, with the delicacy of a bulldozer and the discretion of an atomic bomb, given the Venice Biennale's most authoritative prize to the 'made-in-U.S.A.' stuff one calls 'pop art.' France won not a single prize of any importance. So much the better. French art has nothing in common with this trash." Hotheadlined Les Lettres Francaises: AMERICAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Goodbye Paris, Hello New York | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...Windjammer Cruises through the Bahamas range from $185 for bachelor quarters (six men to a room) to $310 for deck cabins with private bath (only available on the Yankee Clipper). Inside cabins for two cost $210 per person, outside cabins $260. This buys everything, including one ration of 140-proof rum per day. The rest of the drinks are sold at about cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Down to the Sea | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

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