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From the golden sands of its Mediterranean shore to the olive groves and pine trees of its eastern hills, the most characteristic feature of Beirut's skyline is the apartment house. Row upon row of multistoried slabs stand in brightly colored ranks, graced by rooftop gardens, sunken black marble bathtubs with solid gold taps, and airy, glass-walled rooms that look out on full-sailed dhows plying the routes once used by Phoenician triremes. Only trouble is that thousands of the apartments are empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: For Rent | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...Sunken Millions. To the Indonesians, the continued Dutch occupation of barren, poverty-stricken New Guinea represents the loss of one-sixth of the land area of Indonesia, and, valueless or not, they want it. As for the 700,000 Papuan inhabitants of New Guinea, many of them living deep in impenetrable jungle valleys are unaware that there is either a Netherlands or an Indonesia, much less a dispute. The few educated Papuans seem inclined toward independence but recognize their present inability to stand alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Fight over the Papuans | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...party's propagandists explain that the decaying West resembles the sunken boat and diseased

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Loss of Man | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

With Terry Jo's testimony, other disclosures of the dark side of Julian Harvey's life began to appear. At the time of the drowning of Second Wife Joann Harvey, the Florida police, the diver who inspected the sunken wreck of the 1946 Plymouth, and Joann's father wondered at Harvey's agility in getting out of the car unscratched and at his failure to try to rescue his wife and mother-in-law after his own escape. Said Diver Steve Dacosta: "At that speed and short distance, it seemed unlikely that a man could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sea: The Bluebelle's Last Voyage | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...Past the sunken boat, a thousand sails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Loss of Man | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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