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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since he was spirited out of Argentina nine months ago, Eichmann has been confined in a heavily guarded cell at an undisclosed location. He wears Israeli army-style khaki trousers, shirt and pullover and when not consulting with his lawyers, keeps busy boning up on standard works dealing with the Nazi persecution of the Jews. His German-born lawyers, Robert Servatius and Dieter Wechtenbruch, meet with him for six hours a day in a windowless room bisected by a glass wall. Lawyers and client have to communicate via earphones and microphones. The lawyers show Eichmann documents and letters from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Accused | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...like a candle, but he may very well go on for a long time," said one pro-Nasserite comfortably. The freedom from tension has pervaded all levels and classes. At a political rally recently, Sole Leader Kassem orated to his working-class audience: "Like you, I have only one shirt." Out of the crowd came a heckler's cry: "Before you came, I had two." Such casual impudence belongs to Iraq's new mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Upturn in Baghdad | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...enthusiasm over the old look, U.S. buyers at the showings had some muted misgivings. Many of the new fashions are simply too intricately detailed to mass-produce for spring sale in the U.S. Ricci, who introduced a "firecracker" silhouette, raised eyebrows with clutch-dresses without buttons down the shirt front, requiring two hands to keep them closed and prevent outright exposure above the waist-particularly since Ricci, to heighten the flat-chested flapper look, sent his mannequins out braless. Other houses, to achieve the same de-emphasis, went even farther, bound up their mannequins. "The American woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Old Look | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...steel-mesh runway of Wattay Airport in Vientiane, a group of athletic-looking Americans in bright sports shirts and baseball caps busily loaded machine-gun belts and rockets aboard the four new T-6 "training" planes of the Royal Laotian Army. Not far away, behind a desk littered with documents stamped "secret," was their shirt-sleeved boss-former Brigadier General John Arnold Heintges, 48. The general tells his visitors: "Call me mister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sports-Shirt Soldiers | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...patronage of Greek and Turkish families. Customers often bring their children; between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, a low-pitched tambourine. The girls sit quietly with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: The Cooch Terpers | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

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