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Barry Goldwater still putters in his Phoenix saguaro cactus garden, where he has rigged heat lamps that glow automatically whenever freezing temperatures threaten. Nelson Rockefeller steals moments at his hifi, sits fascinated by the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman bands of the '30s. Dick Nixon thrills to the rough (but losing) play of New York's hockey Rangers. Maggie Smith sits with opera glasses in her Silver Spring, Md., apartment, spots sparrows, cardinals and titmice flitting among ten feeding stations and birdhouses. She sets out raisins, notes that "the mockingbird always takes two, four, never an odd number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TEES, TIGERS, TITMICE--& A PRESIDENT TOO? | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...COMMUNIST CHINA. "Peking incites and actively supports the aggression in Southeast Asia in violation of the Geneva accords of 1962. Peking attacked India and occupies a position from which it continues to threaten the sub continent of South Asia. Peking is attempting to extend its tactics of terror and subversion into Africa and Latin America. In other words, Peking flouts the first condition for peace: leave your neighbors alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Many-Hued Policy | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Tariff Cuts. A powerful force is at work to speed up the corporate romances. Though internal Common Market industrial tariffs have already been reduced by 60% , most Eurocrats believe that it is the final 40% cut that will really open up competition and threaten many industries that have long been inefficient and overprotected. As the final tariff reductions take place during the next three years, courting companies are bound to begin thinking that one can survive more economically than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: Economic Courtships | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

These deficiencies are not likely to be overcome by a rash attack on North Vietnam. Such a policy would increase greatly the chance of Chinese participation, and would threaten to involve large numbers of U.S. troops in an area where they do not belong. The proper approach in Vietnam is not more war, but a cease fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cutting Our Losses | 2/24/1964 | See Source »

...command economy of Communism has no ears or eyes. The individual can plead, complain, threaten or walk out. But no one really cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Tomorrow Is Three Suits | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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