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...entity as a polite truth or a romantic stage presence which melts in the wings into a conservative reality. If this is what the American people want there are American "folk singers" who chant Russian peasant songs to the accompaniment of periodic taps on the dashboard of a Mercedes sedan, or emit plantation work songs out over the violin section from the confines of tight black pants and silk shirts. These are the part-time romantics who make their deliveries without the "Alice-in-Wonderland logic" and with all the power and effectiveness of half the critical mass. The public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON SEEGER | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...result of Judge Jones's ruling, the ministers were liable for immediate collection of the first $500,000 judgment. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy's one-twelfth interest in a 307-acre Marengo County tract was sold for $4,350. Abernathy's five-year-old Buick sedan was auctioned off for $400, and the cars of two other ministers were attached. All told, the first efforts at collection raised some $6,000. With the judgment effective for at least 10 years, the ministers face two choices: 1) they can sue for recovery from the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Alabama Justice | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...fatter share of the market. Says Rootes Motors, Inc.'s Managing Director John T. Panks: "It's nothing but bloody nonsense that the imported car is about to vanish from the U.S. market." To prove his case, Rootes sent to the show a new Humber Super-Snipe sedan designed especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Compacts v. the World | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...COMPACT CAR, described as a "spacious small car," will be marketed next year by France's Citroen in competition with Volkswagen and U.S. compacts. Called the AMI 6, the four-door sedan has a front-mounted, air-cooled engine, front-wheel drive, 62-m.p.h. top speed. U.S. price: under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: Mar. 31, 1961 | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...Kenya Legislative Council banned the sale of KMQ. But despite the threat of stiff fines, Akumu kept brewing, and despite the scores of stiffs found, Nairobi kept drinking. Akumu got to be a wealthy man. He acquired five wives, a flashy Opel sedan, three rambling houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Kill Me Quick | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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