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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gardner ("Mike") Cowles was traveling through darkest Africa last February when he bumped into an old acquaintance: U.S. Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood. Seizing the opportunity, Cowles offered Attwood a job as editorial director of Cowles publications. Attwood was hesitant about accepting; he had scored a distinct success in Kenya, as he had earlier in Guinea, by practicing a quiet, cheerful diplomacy, by never forcing his views on Africans and by always listening to theirs. He had even survived a bad bout of polio and returned to the job as zestful as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Lure of Look | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...York there's only air pollution." But to 33-year-old Bachelor Stevenson, who has already dabbled in Wall Street (Lazard Freres), educational films, Caribbean real estate, and an unsuccessful antique-car rental service, Cheetah is "an investment that I know will be a success." To reporters he elaborated: "I'm not a nightclub man, and the music drives me out of my mind, but I have inordinately good taste." Did he feel he was cashing in on his father's name? "Only the narrow-minded would say that. I think Dad would have enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Life: The Roar of the Cheetah, The Look of the Crowd | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

This season the quartet's eleven concerts in Philadelphia drew near-sellout crowds. Following their success in Manhattan last week, the de Pasquale brothers had only one regret. Said Joseph: "If only Dad could have heard us. He would have popped his buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chamber Music: The Brothers Four | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...shaped rows of seats, and begins to toss out pointed questions in a disarmingly gentle voice. He poses, for example, the problem of how three older men feel when a boss promotes a youngster over them. To a student who argues that feelings don't matter, only success does, Athos says crisply: "I would like to suggest that you talk an ideology that you do not practice?even in this classroom." To another: "You think that the boss knows what he's doing because you identify with the boss, as you do in every other case." To a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: To Profess with a Passion | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...Undress a chic woman," says Perma Lift bras, undressing one partially for most of a page, "and what do you see?" Chrysler equates its cars with amorous success. And Howard clothes boasts that it makes clothes "for men who make love" and "men who make babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: King Leer | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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