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...town's traditions trace back to the female followers who camped around the local U.S. Army barracks in the 19th century. Since then, Newport has developed such a gaudy brand of gambling and prostitution that it stands today as one of the nation's most blatant sin centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kentucky: Sin Center | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...executive of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios describes it easily as "two basic movements, a swinging from side to side and a style of truckin' done in half time, with infinite variations." At any rate, the stomp was on and the handkerchiefs were out. Skirts, which are worn sin-tight at the Palladium, were double-sewn at the seams. Up to 350 panting pachangueros crowded into the hall's weekly dance classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jukebox: Cuba's Revenge | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...Side" v. the "New Side," and Jonathan Edwards bringing sinners to their trembling knees with detailed word pictures of hell. Edwards and his followers did much to erode Calvinist determinism by interpreting Adam's fall as not laying irremediable guilt upon man, but only an inclination to sin. After the Revolutionary War, it was the "Old School" and the "New School," which subordinated the sterner tenets of the reformed faith to the idea of God's love. The liberalizers won out in the '20s in a battle in which the conservatives began calling themselves fundamentalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To End a Scandal | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...Johnson has threatened to force changes in N.C.A.A. track rules to ban his namesake's "questionable" technique. But most track officials agree with Coach Winter that Sprinter Johnson's starts are perfectly proper. "There's nothing remotely illegal about Dennis' start." says Winter. "The only sin he's committed is to run 9.3." Johnson himself is unconcerned by the ruckus. "I've never had any complaint, not even a black look," he says, "from any of the guys I've raced against. All I get from them are congratulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Challenger | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...dealt with all sorts of . One was about "a girl with as soft as velvet, and she blew up in the Polish resistance to and another described a more girl on the Colorado trail. A melody told of "dean's inspecting at Swarthmore, where "more- and there's no sin...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Seeger's Political Ballads Drew Standing Ovations | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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