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The automobile and its rail-less track became an autocrat and a sacred cow; no one dared stand in its way. Family homesteads, a town's ancient elms, historic monuments were sacrificed to spare the passing motorist a few minutes' delay. Bypasses and underpasses and overpasses snaked through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: One for the Roads | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

"Late jam sessions, midnight until unconscious," advertised one nightclub. In Freetown's magnificent harbor, gaily painted paddle boats carrying names like God Never Hurries staged a regatta. To the beat of tom-toms, 150 bare-breasted girls snaked past Sierra Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: Newest Nation | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

In the northern Congo, weeds and wild bush snaked across roads traveled only by stealthy bands of marauding army deserters. In Leopoldville, garbage piled high and the prevailing scent came from the sewers. Jealous rivals have sliced the Congo into six distinct nominally independent "nations," and in each juju magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: What It's Like | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

For the crowded opening of its new show last week, Manhattan's D'Arcy Galleries had gone to all sorts of pains to set the right mood. Through loudspeakers came the false notes struck by a small child practicing the piano. In one nook were three white hens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surrealistic Sanity | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

On the kick-off after Sullivan's score, Yale right halfback Ken Wolfe showed why he was chosen Ivy bask of the week last week and why he will be a definite thorn for Harvard on kick-off and past returns. Taking the ball on his own goal line, he...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Bulldogs Show Powerful Offense | 11/15/1960 | See Source »

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