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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slowly the banner of Africa's 35th new state unfurled to wild cries of "Uhuru!" and the explosion of fireworks. Minutes later, word reached the stadium that a team of climbers had reached the summit of Mount Kenya, planted the new flag and lit flares that illuminated the sacred mountain "like a fireball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Uhuru Is Not Enough | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Alarmed Nude. In recent years, Tashi retired into a private life that consisted largely of prayer and painting -he specialized in misty Sikkimese landscapes, and painted one "vision" of the Abominable Snowman, who is pictured as a skinny, jet-black animal with a red face scampering over a snowy summit carrying a nude, pink-skinned lady with an alarmed expression. Tashi conversed with spirits, who are prevalent in Sikkim, looked out at the world through green-tinted glasses, and seemed fashioned of gold, so stiff and heavy were his brocaded robes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sikkim: From Debutante to the Deities | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...association of Kennedy's accused assassin with far-left causes would touch off a violent reaction in the U.S. and freeze the tentative thaw that Kennedy was encouraging. Anxious to size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun pressuring for a summit, possibly next spring in Stockholm. For the moment, Johnson wants no part of it. Neither does Rusk, unless some progress is made on such specific items as the opening of consular offices in several U.S. and Soviet cities or the establishment of air routes. But the British, who seem ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Quiet Man | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Others include Anne Graybiel, of 124 Walker St. and Warrington, Fia.; Susan Hand, of Sister House and Summit, N.J.; Mrs. Judith Herman, of Cambridge and New York City; Alison Householder, of Jordan W and Bloomington, Ind.; Mrs. Marily Robinson Waldman, of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa | 11/21/1963 | See Source »

...characters at Tower, Tilney & Webb, from Senior Partner Clitus Tilney down to the most recent ex-editor of the Yale Law Journal, regard it as the summit of human felicity to be senior partner of Tower, Tilney & Webb. All the behavior of all the characters, even to their manner of dress and the way their hair grows (thick for the comers, sparse, long, oily or fluffy for the outsiders and no-hopers), centers on this notion. Their private life is spent among other lawyers and their wives. They move by the tropisms of power and fear in a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Goods & Grey Men | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

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