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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally there was Sin Kim Dan, a delicate little North Korean lass who broke the women's records at both 400 meters and 800 meters two years ago; some time later, an overjoyed elderly gentleman in South Korea recognized Sin as the son he had lost in the war. At last week's European track-and-field championships in Budapest, I.A.A.F. officials for the first time ordered all lady contestants to undergo a physical examination to prove that they were, in fact, ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: Preserving la Difference | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...part of its wages not in money but in leisure, most particularly in the leisure that is taken at the place of employment." Prime Minister Harold Wilson noted the same thing with a Yorkshireman's economy of speech. "Sheer damn laziness," he said, is Britain's besetting sin, and the nation's need is "a full day's work for a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: HOW THE TEA BREAK COULD RUIN ENGLAND | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...attack that sin, which is precisely the one that the agency is supposed to commit, Fulbright called USIA Chief Leonard Marks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The subject was junkets-with which Senators are familiar-specifically USIA payment for the transportation of 30 to 35 Asian and European newsmen to Viet Nam. Fretted Fulbright: "Doesn't this point to a possible conflict of interest that might compromise the objectivity newspapers owe their readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Correspondents: Of Junkets & the USIA | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...Problems of Sexuality. After it was published as a book, Abbe Oraison was summoned to the Holy Office at the Vatican, where, he recalls, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani and Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo counseled him that the best methods for preserving sexual purity are a good diet and fear of sin. As Abbé Oraison wrote in Le Monde: "Twice Cardinal Pizzardo repeated to me, 'For purity-fright, spaghetti and beans.' " Then Cardinal Ottaviani told the French priest that his book had been placed on the Index of Prohibited Books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Issue of Imprimatur | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...irreverent cariocas put it, not even Jesus Christ, whose statue, arms outstretched, gazes down on Rio from Corcovado, would be able to do much about Brazil's endemic sin of inflation. In one 31-month period, the cost of living soared an astronomical 340%, and in 1964 alone, the year that free-spending João Goulart was thrown out, it was heading up 150%. Yet when President Humberto Castello Branco took over, he confidently vowed to achieve stability in just two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: In Search of a Miracle | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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