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One day last week, as a wintry noon sun glinted dully on the stunted pines and heather, a long line of sleek black Mercedes limousines snaked past the low mounds to a grey stone obelisk that rises like a warning finger over the baleful site of Belsen's barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: A Pilgrimage to Hell | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

Trembling with fatigue from the top of her platinum-blonde hair to the tips of her dainty little (size 5) shoes, the onetime idol of 2,000,000 G.I.s faced newspaper photographers one night last week in a cramped backstage office of Manhattan's garish Latin Quarter. "Let'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Ham & Legs | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

The opening of Squaw Valley Lodge on Thanksgiving Day, 1949, was a memorable fiasco. Cushing had to hire strikebreakers when his union workmen struck the week of the opening, hooked up plumbing himself. Justine hurriedly summoned the domestic couple from their New York home, pressed a friend into service as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bonanza in the Wilderness | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

The air in Washington on Monday morning hung oppressive and muggy. At 8 o'clock the rain began to fall in a dismal drizzle, slicking the streets, washing the stone and concrete faces of the capital. The raindrops beaded the row of semicircular windows off the White House south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: An Act in Time | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

What did the kids (average age: 23) have? Most obviously, boundless energy, meshed-gear precision, dramatic flair, sheer physical virtuosity. In superbly mounted national folk dances and "popular ballets" (original works on contemporary Russian themes), the men soared above the stage in spring-legged leaps that seemed to pin them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: O.K.! | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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