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...shake hands with startled Camel Driver Ahmad Bashir, 40. While the photographers snapped away, Johnson made small talk. "President Ayub Khan is coming to the U.S.," he offered. "Why don't you come too?" Bashir agreeably smiled "Sure, sure," went home to his mud-and-gunny-sack shack and forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Come See Me | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...most popular dispensers of bluegrass in the business. They now make nearly $100,000 a year apiece. Their fees are among the highest on the country circuit, but thanks to their sponsor, fans can sometimes get in to hear them at half price: they need only present an opened sack of the sponsor's corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pickin1 Scruggs | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

Some 80 per cent of the men released from Norfolk will sooner or later be sack on the wrong side of the small, concrete room used to keep men from forcing their way out with a hostage...

Author: By Frederic L. Bullard jr., | Title: PBH Prison Instruction Program: Education As Attempt To Curtail Further Crimes By Convicted Men | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...stable, the cost of living is slowing down, and the economy is so healthy that the government could pass up a U.S. loan offer of $15 million. To make them more impressive, the accomplishments are the work of what would seem to be two political cats in a sack: fiery Benito Nardone, 53, a former traveling salesman who leads Uruguay's noisily reform-minded ruralistas, and wily Eduardo Victor Haedo, 59, a witty ex-teacher who bosses the rightist National (Blanco) Party. Two years ago when they joined forces to defeat the Colorado Party that had ruled Uruguay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Two-Headed Leadership | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...what plainly just keeps The Unsinkable Molly Brown afloat is an unquenchable Tammy Grimes. Starting off, in potato-sack finery, half tomboy and half troll, she roars and soars ahead with her magically rusty vocal cords, her magically uncombed look, her meltable rock-candy hardness, now executing a slow, sneakered, ragamuffin saraband, now after a Denver fiasco ripping into an exuberant barefoot dance, now smashing a chair over a stranger's head, now reacting in Paris to her first taste of snails: "With that sauce, you could eat erasers." Thanks to her, Molly is dripping but undrowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Nov. 14, 1960 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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