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From 6 a.m. on, the morning air is blue with exhaust fumes and the imprecations of traffic-jammed motorists. A continuous ribbon of new and half-finished apartment houses, new factories, assembly plants and used-car lots flanks the 13-mile road be tween the airport and town. Hotel space is at such a premium that many a visiting industrialist is glad to find a cot in the bathroom of any rooming house. The new boom town: Algiers, a city once chiefly celebrated in romantic French novels for its hauntingly mysterious Casbah and flyspecked poverty...
...safety pins, he draped and hung the material, creating one of the most exciting strapless gowns I've ever seen. For a stole, he and several other hostelers went to the Bois de Boulogne and gathered sacks of green ivy, which they stitched to a latticework of ribbon...
Ford, 46, a good friend since Nixon's early days in Congress; Charles Percy, 40, Chicago industrialist (president of the Bell & Howell Co.) and chairman of the blue-ribbon Republican Committee on Program and Progress (TIME, May 11, 1959); and Attorney General William...
...outskirts of Ladysmith, the Kennedy motorcade slowed down as it got near a group of cheering nuns and postulants, chilled from waiting at the roadside. Kennedy ordered a halt, hopped out of his car. One postulant wished him a happy St. Patrick's Day, pinned a green ribbon on his lapel. But Kennedy looked uncomfortable when photographers' bulbs popped. Later, when visiting the nearby convent, Kennedy barred photos. "I think not," he said, raising his hand. Back in the car, Kennedy explained that pictures are not allowed in some convents, tore off all but the slightest fragment...
...evidence of his year of crime collaboration with ten Chicago cops (TIME, Feb. 1). This evidence, on top of everything else, gave Democrat Daley the worst political rocking of his five years in office, prompted him to demote his police commissioner. To California's Wilson and a blue-ribbon citizens' committee, Mayor Daley gave a sweeping order: Find the best police superintendent in the country. Last week, after interviewing no fewer than 37 candidates, the committee found its man: its own chairman, Orlando Winfield Wilson. To upgrade the job, Daley raised the superintendent's pay from...