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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left him time to check up on his ten stud farms and stables in France and Ireland, and for visits to his Paris mansion in the Bois de Boulogne, his manor house outside Dublin, his Riviera chateau and his villas in Normandy and Switzerland. His constant companion was a slim, tawny-haired French model known professionally as Bettina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INTERNATIONAL SET: Death on a Curve | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...indolent grandees with slave labor throughout the rest of Central America. Now it is the isthmus' most prosperous, democratic, law-abiding and literate country. It has the only siz able middle class. Proudly it shuns militarism. Echandi. who recently sold off most of the country's already slim supply of arms, says: "We have 600 schools and 600 policemen. Of 19,000 government employees. 10,500 work for the Education Ministry.'' With the aid of a $10 million loan from the Chase Manhattan Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: Waking Nations | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Last Inch. The tapered, square-tipped wings, reaching for 45 ft. to either side of a slim 40-ft. fuselage, gave the U-2 the look of a high-performance sailplane. They suggest a range far beyond that circumscribed by the fuel supply. Editor Sekigawa, a glider pilot himself, speculated that the U-2 was built to climb under its own power, soar with its engine cut, for long, valuable miles in the thin upper atmosphere. Its Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engine could kick it along at speeds just under the speed of sound, and its light frame could almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Flight to Sverdlovsk | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...Attractively ravaged, exhausted-looking'' Broadway and Hollywood Producer Leland (South Pacific) Hayward, 57, showed how he earned the description given him by a friend. A few hours after he was divorced by his third wife, Nancy ("Slim") Hayward, in Las Vegas, he married Pamela Churchill, 40, ex-wife of Sir Winston's fustian son, Randolph. Pamela, daughter of Baron Digby, had been reported friendly since her divorce from Randolph with a Rothschild, a Fiat executive and a U.S. TV oracle. Says a (female) friend: "She is a quiet, appealing temptress with a soft, lovely voice, who plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Musical Pairs | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...studied law at Utrecht, and then, despite his father's urgings that he enter the diplomatic service, joined Shell. He spent 14 months in Venezuela, working on the rigs and derricks of Lake Maracaibo, and then returned to Holland to marry his college sweetheart, Marie van Tuyll, the slim, at tractive daughter of an aristocratic Dutch family. Reassigned to the U.S.. he worked in Boston, Houston (where his two oldest sons were born) and Los Angeles, gradually advancing in the Group's ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Diplomats of Oil | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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