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Nobody could be sure what the Amman crowds were really thinking or how they would react to an anti-Toni campaign from Cairo. But Hussein had been engaged on what he calls "a policy of rapprochement with the Arab world," and, along with a golden bowl from the Kennedys and a silver tea service from Queen Elizabeth II, he got an important present from Nasser: Cairo radio said not a critical word about the marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan: King Takes a Wife | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...designed. It can look around with TV eyes, scan the close and forbidding horizon, feel the ground for moonquakes, perhaps examine pinches of moon dust for chemical content. It can do almost anything that its designers want it to do-except the most important thing of all: react intelligently to unexpected situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cruise of the Vostok | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...most angry young men, shoots his outrage off in all directions. His hero is the persecuted individual, his villain the persecuting mass; he senses "instances of inhumanity all around me." A newspaper story, a political campaign, a photograph in a book-anything may trigger a painting. Says Strombotne: "I react violently to practically everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nightmare Alley | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...expect me to react? It's beautiful!" an eminent Russian physicist visiting Harvard declared yesterday about the epoch-making flight into space of jet Air Force Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Russian Physicist Applauds Astronaut's Feat | 4/13/1961 | See Source »

...Grow Old? Every girl is tight-corseted with the propaganda that she must have a slim, svelte figure, no matter what her natural body build or bone structure. She may react to this either by trimming down mercilessly and suffering near starvation; or she may surrender to the neurotic pleasures of overeating?all the time rationalizing that the trouble is in her glands (which it almost never is). Another deliberate anxiety builder is the slogan, "Why grow old?" It introduces a prescription containing a teaspoonful of wisdom, such as the values of exercise and a balanced diet, diluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anatomy of Angst | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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