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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again this year, TIME offers its unique service to the readers who will be traveling abroad this summer. Subscribers to the U.S. and Canada editions who wish to receive their copies reader, a bazaar merchant who offered a ride in his private...
...statement about Gabriele D'Annunzio is an understatement. Poets these days tend to be an almost muted species haunted by the dread that they may be understood by nonpractitioners of their private art. They do not. as did D'Annunzio. ride naked on horseback into the surf and don a purple cloak as a bathrobe, or drink wine from a virgin's skull...
...bedlam of barking, two packs of boxer dogs hurtled into the ring wearing gaily striped T shirts. Using balloons for balls, they played a frantic game of soccer that brought futebol-mad Brazilians screaming to their feet. Gosha, the Russian bear, came on for the finale to ride a bicycle, toss a few somersaults, wrestle gently with his trainer and balance ponderously on parallel bars. Then the lights went out, and Gosha steered a sputtering motorcycle around the arena by the glow of the headlight alone. As the Brazilians stamped, jumped, clapped and screamed "Bravo!" for a full three minutes...
Greenwillow (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Lesser Samuels and Mr. Loesser; based on B. J. Chute's novel) takes the composer of Guys and Dolls for a long ride-from a tough Manhattan of floating crap games to a quaint folk region of scampering rustics. An off-in-the-distance village, Greenwillow is also an out-of-the-past one and might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call...
...Vitry, who has ten children ranging from 16 to 35 (none of whom joined Pechiney), likes to ride horseback or listen to classical music with them and his wife at their ten-room apartment near the Etoile. Like many other executives, he scorns the head office as a "center of un-productivity," spends two or three months a year traveling over the world inspecting Pechiney's plants...