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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actually been decided long in advance, ordained by the strange way the Labor Party is run, in which labor leaders, casting a bloc of a million union votes at a time, can always outvote the so-called constituency parties, which represent the actual British voter. In union halls and smoke-filled rooms, all the big unions had registered their stands and committed their huge bloc votes last summer. When the conference chairman banged his opening gavel in the big Scarborough auditorium, only the delegates representing the various constituency parties remained free to swing their votes-and the only question left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Counting Labor Out | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...distinguished guests. Suddenly, at dinner time, the lobby elevator door popped open and Fidel Castro-arms waving, beard wagging, voice rising and falling with rage-stormed out of the hotel with his pileous crew pounding after him. Behind him he left a string of rooms soaked with cigar smoke, strewed .with molding food, and torn asunder-and Owner Spatz with his ulcer acting up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Flight to Harlem | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

Soundest Proof. Between Edna and Georgia, Skelton filled in with alcohol, but now drinks very little and does not smoke, although he almost always has a cigar with him and manages to chew up some 25 to 30 stogies a day. Nor does he gamble-in public-since that might disillusion his followers. When he is in Las Vegas, the hotel management installs a slot machine in his room, last month turned back to him $350 he had lost while playing his enormously successful engagement at The Sands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Sixth Sense Only | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

Unlike many people in his profession, George Abbott does not drink or smoke or talk about himself. He enjoys taking pretty girls out dancing and is especially expert at the cha-cha. Once widowed and once divorced, he has one talented daughter, Judith, and several grandchildren. He drives a new Cadillac and plays good golf for a beginner--he took it up this spring, leaving his tennis cronies looking for a fourth...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Wonderful Abbott | 10/1/1960 | See Source »

...Lowell House, smoke from a burning couch temporarily one Harvard student, eventually revived at Stillman There was no damage other than the loss of the such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loeb Lowell House Hit by Fires | 9/27/1960 | See Source »

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