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...plays a six-year-old whose mother has just died. The boy has an original mind ("Brave boys don't bleed very much when they're cut. No matter how big the cut is, they hold their blood in"), and he tries hard to understand what has happened to his mother. But he can't quite do it till he finds one of his goldfish floating belly up in the tank. At the sight he screams insanely and has to be slapped to his senses, but next morning he bounces up for breakfast as though nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Male Shirley Temple? | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...race. Ford also had entries in last week's Sebring twelve-hour endurance race in Florida, will have aluminum Ford engines powering two racers in the Indianapolis "500" Memorial Day. In fact, Ford is racing all over these days, openly defying both its critics and a six-year-old industry pledge against racing or ballyhooing of speed and horsepower in order to sell cars. Says Ford Division Boss Lee lacocca: "We are going to continue to enter all kinds of competition to improve the breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Off to the Races | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...rival Palace Hotel requires no necktie. The Gstaad old guard are not quite sure they approve; a group of rich young Greeks recently brawled over a girl at a Chesery party, ended by stripping her to her black lace panties. Far more the Gstaad style is the six-year-old Eagle Club, whose 190 lifetime members pay a subscription fee of $1,000, are guaranteed a place to sit down to eat and a breathtaking view from the 6,000-ft.-high lodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Coming Up Chic | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Columnist Charles Allbright of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette recently recorded this conversation with his six-year-old daughter. But many parents across the U.S. would find Allbright's dilemma familiar. Other backyard echoes of "Bang, bang, the Russians are going to kill you," and "The snow is poisoned" have inspired the National Institute of Mental Health to cooperate with the Child Study Association of America in putting out a guide for parents: Children and the Threat of Nuclear War (available from the Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: Emotions & the Bomb | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...entered the air force in 1951, became a Communist Party member in 1957. While on duty in Siberia, he met his future wife, Maria, a woodcutter's daughter and an accomplished amateur stunt pilot, at a flying club near his station. Married in 1955, they have a six-year-old daughter, Natasha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Heavenly Twins | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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