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...unctuously dispatched messages to heads of state, among them President Johnson, urging a summit conference to discuss nuclear disarmament. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant took up the call, suggested a meeting perhaps next year. The U.S. State Department had already rejected Red China's ploy, calling it "a sucker proposal" since it made no mention of inspection. If the Chinese are really concerned about all this, said the U.S., they can always sign the partial test ban treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Start of the Chain | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...Black Gang. What a tourist can do most easily, though, is get clipped. Unwary visitors commonly find themselves staring at bills for as much as $80 after a brief bout of drinking. One sucker discovered to his horror that he had been buying champagne for the whole house, including band and B-girls, and finally coughed up $600. Blackmail, extortion and strong-arm tactics complete the repertory, and in recent years many a waiter has become an owner himself, or else tucked away a small fortune before leaving the Raper for more respectable surroundings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Reform Along the Raper | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

FOXY is a vaudeville version of Volpone that permits Master Clown Bert Lahr to play hide-and-sucker with the golddiggers of the Yukon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 27, 1964 | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

FOXY is a vaudeville version of Volpone which permits Master Clown Bert Lahr to play hide-and-sucker with the gold diggers of the Yukon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 20, 1964 | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...vocabulary-carrying signs that read: MOMMA, MOMMA, MOMMA, CAN WE FIGHT! Clay's eyes rolled. "This is my show! My show! My show!" he raved. "I'm ready to rumble! Ready to rumble!" He shrieked at Liston: "You nothin'. You scared. You a chump, a sucker. I'm gonna eat you up." Newsmen shook their heads sadly. "Schizophrenia," suggested Milton Gross of the New York Post. "Hysteria," said New York Timesman Arthur Daley. The boxing commission doctor reported Clay's pulse rate at 120-v. his normal 54. "This is a man who is scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: With Mouth & Magic | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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