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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every Russian who changes his shirt commits suicide, but Russian suicides cling to the superstition that a change of linen should precede death. On April 14, 1930 Poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky changed his shirt. Then he slipped a cartridge into his revolver and played Russian roulette. He lost. According to his friend Boris Pasternak, "the news rocked the telephones, blanketed faces with pallor ... [people] all the way up the staircase wept and pressed against each other." It was a blow from which Soviet literature has never quite recovered, for Mayakovsky was the unchallenged laureate of the revolution. A critic named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Comrade Who Couldn't | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

Last week he was back home alone for a triumphant one-man show in Buenos Aires. The curator of the embryonic Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art greeted him at the airport ("Welcome to our great little painter!"). And at the show, Aldo, dressed in corduroy pants and polo shirt, seemed as at ease as an old pro. "This boy is a complete painter!" said the critic of the morning Clarin. "He justifies all expectations," declared the man from El Mundo. Lapping it all up, Aldo grandly announced that he had come home to stay, even though his parents would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Return of the Prodigy | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...three electoral votes to decide the outcome in November. He was also testing his style and some of his "impact lines" for future use. Inevitably, he was draped with leis, let himself be kissed by Hawaiian maidens, showed up at a luau wearing a just-purchased electric-yellow sports shirt, ate gluey poi with his fingers in the native manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Westward Ho! | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...with assurance of such technical topics as balance of payments, rediscount rates or expansion of commercial paper. As one Washington banker puts it, "It's just like talking to another banker." One of Che's irritations comes from Prime Minister Castro, who carries a checkbook in his shirt pocket. When a project seems worthy, Castro tugs out the book and writes a check. His account is now overdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Castro's Brain | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...solution. From half a dozen points on Long Island, small chartered planes shuttled back and forth, adding extra schedules. Happiest of the displaced commuters were the yachtsmen, who found an excuse to make their weekend seagoing pleasure the necessity for a business day. When the strike began, a Manhattan shirt salesman named J. Stanley Aughenbaugh recruited three riders for his 26-ft. cabin cruiser. They enjoy a leisurely breakfast at sea on the way in and drink cocktails on the long voyage home. "It's so much fun that we may go right on commuting by sea after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The Resourceful Commuter | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

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