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...rioters screamed, "Down with America!" "Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash 47 windows, ink enough to splash photogenically on the embassy's pink stucco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: Panic & Petulance | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...daughters of two celebrated actors scored smash hits in London theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: In the Family | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

After he went into the movie business, he came across a smash sex-hygiene film called Body Beautiful. "It made me sick," he remembers. "So I bought it." He usually dealt in pictures produced by others, before he finally started producing movies on his own. His pictures are low-level entertainment, but Joe Levine is unpretentious enough to know it-unlike many a Hollywood producer who claims to be dealing in culture. Levine, however, has left "God, sex, and spectacle" films long enough to commission a suburban comedy of manners from Marion (Private) Hargrove and has also bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Joe Unchained | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond will provide the smash opening for the Freshman Jubilee weekend beginning April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brubeck to Jazz Up Jubilee | 2/11/1961 | See Source »

...Congo deadlock. The U.N. force was losing troops; last week the U.A.R.'s 510-man unit and Guinea's 750 soldiers went home. Massive civil war was in the offing. A battalion of Mobutu's troops had driven deep into Eastern province in an effort to smash the pro-Lumumba forces of Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville. Gizenga's own troops launched new forays into Kasai province. Rampaging Lumum-baists in Kivu ambushed 200 U.N. Nigerian soldiers, provoking a pitched, daylong battle. In Katanga, Tshombe sent his Belgian-piloted airplanes to bomb the invaders of his province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Changing Course | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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