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Seconds. In Manhattan, a worn, stout suburban banker contemplates a horrible question. "What have you got now?" The questioner represents a mysterious organization specializing in "fresh starts" for tired businessmen. Sweating a bit, the banker (John Randolph) rather furtively reviews his list of assets. Wealth. Company presidency coming up. A boat, social friends, a Scarsdale colonial occupied by an anxious little wife who keeps the roses trimmed. Answers the businessman, with grinding despair: "I. . .I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Identity Crisis | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

About 8 p.m. on May 15, a group of students standing outside of Stoughton Hall found a long stout rope in the bushes -- apparently discarded by Building and Grounds. Being sturdy, stalwart lads, they decided to have...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: THE CLASS OF '66 | 6/15/1966 | See Source »

RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE Juanita Kidd Stout, L.H.D., first Negro woman in the U.S. to be elected a judge, Philadelphia County Court. Our educational mission is ultimately thwarted unless a meaningful political involvement such as yours becomes more commonplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Kudos | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

Brendan Behan lost his battle with "the gargle," the two quarts of Irish whisky, chased by floods of Guinness stout, that he drank every day he was able. Some said it was a sad, wasted life, over at 41, but the Borstal Boy never said it. He was never that far gone that he couldn't knock out the stray book or play-the best of them, such as The Hostage and The Scarperer, being very good indeed, and the worst of them throbbing, at least, with that high, rollicking rebel spirit that made Behan different from other skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Thumb in the Stew | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...wind data enabled the Sandia computers eventually to plot the probable trajectory of the missing bomb and locate where it had hit the water. Their calculations tended to confirm the story of Spanish Fisherman Francisco Simo y Orts, who had reported to skeptical task-force officials that a "stout man" swinging from a parachute had hit the water only about 75 yds. from his boat, five miles off Palomares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Applied Science: How They Found the Bomb | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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