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Italians can brew a political tempest in the tiniest espresso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Death Wish & Taxes | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...North--for its part--must not assume that the rides are anything more than a token of the bankruptcy of the segregationist movement. Set against the tides of migration--poor whites as well as Negroes--already leaving the farms of the South, the New Orleans refugees are insignificant, the tiniest handful of bewildered, defeated...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: 'Freedom Rides' | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Eagle, who once towered over a troupe of 187 little people, now has to make do with only one midget-Felix, the smallest Perfect Man-who sells the World's Tiniest Bible for 25?. The sideshow's giant, Eddie Carmel-the World's Largest Giant-allows children to take a huge ring off his finger for 25? a take. They get to keep the ring-Eddie's supply is endless. According to Eagle, Carmel would be 18 inches taller than he looks if he could straighten up; he is billed at straightened-up height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circuses: Goodbye, Tom Thumb | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're and, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same with knowledge, for whenever you learn something...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Juster Takes Us Through a New Looking Glass | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...State Department called in Russian Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov and declared that the U.S. viewed the continued fighting with "deep concern." The fighting went right on. Red Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Pathet Lao, boasted: "Our troops and our people are in the position of a victor!" The tiniest Laotian village could read the future. At Ban Sai, barely eight miles from Vientiane, the local chief, who had been begging for U.S. aid to build a market road, last week turned down an offer of $1,000. "Go away and don't come back," he said to a visiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Collapse | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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