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...when the hydrangea-lovers reappear moments later, the chairwoman is no longer speaking on flowers. She is asking the head of the American patrol to murder two of his men. "Yes ma'am," he replies politely, and obviously anxious to please his hostesses, he strangles one (with a scarf thoughtfully provided by a woman in the audience) and shoots the other in the forehead. The sweet ladies of the garden club applaud his performance enthusiastically...

Author: By Anbrew T. Wril, | Title: The Manchurian Candidate | 11/7/1962 | See Source »

...almost ready when I arrived. She put on a heavy wool cardigan. "At least she'll be warm," I thought. Then a raincoat. "At least she'll be dry," I thought. Over that she put on a poncho. "She'll be shapeless," I thought. She put on loafers, a scarf, and a rain-hat. I twisted uneasily in my deceptively thin trenchooat...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: My Date: Rain And A Gung-ho Girl | 11/5/1962 | See Source »

...Very good, Raymond," the professor coos. "Now take this scarf and strangle Ed Mavole." Stolidly. Raymond takes the Scarf and strangles Ed Mavole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Down South in North Korea | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

BLONDE, bronzed, deep-dimpled, green-eyed and shapely. Rene Carpenter, 34, is by anyone's standard a dish. She is also self-possessed and wise. Wearing a navy blue skirt and white middy blouse, and carrying a red scarf in her hand, she stepped before newsmen at Cape Canaveral after her husband's space voyage was over. Said she: "I was dry-eyed the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I've Been Thoroughly Checked Out | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...dawn, a newsman asked Salan if he were going to surrender. Curtly the general answered, "No!" Weeping, Lucienne Salan tied a silk scarf about her husband's neck in a farewell gesture. Generals Challe and Zeller returned to France as prisoners; Generals Salan and Jouhaud, with some 100 deserters from the ist Foreign Legion Paratroop Regiment, disappeared into the underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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