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Schmid went to bizarre lengths to build his image. He added 3 in. to his meager (5 ft. 3 in.) frame by stuffing rags and folded tin cans into his black leather boots. He dyed his hair raven black, wore pancake makeup, pale cream lipstick and mascara. As for the cash, which he got in a generous weekly dole from his mother, Schmid bragged to the boys that it came from smuggling cars into Mexico, to the girls that it came from women whom he had taught "100 ways to make love...
...setting was like a primitive painting. The main building in Hye is a combination post office-general store, and sports a false tin front pressed into gingerbread doodads and painted bright red, white and green. It was here in 1912, when he was four, recalled Lyndon, that he mailed his first letter-to his grandmother. "Larry O'Brien told me a few moments ago," he said archly, "that he is going out to find that letter and deliver it." Waxing philosophical, Johnson continued: "This little community represents to me the earliest recollections of the America that I knew when...
Unfamiliar Glow. All that intense professional activity-involving everything from rockets to careful studies with powerful telescopes-was touched off by a couple of amateur Japanese stargazers working with homemade equipment. For Kaoru Ikeya, 21, who lives in a tin-roof shanty near the eel farms on Lake Hamana, 140 miles southwest of Tokyo, this was his third comet discovery. Since his first (TIME, Jan. 25, 1963), Ikeya has advanced from a $28-a-month lathe operator to a $44-a-month ivory-key polisher in the same piano factory, but has no greater ambition than to help support...
...Tin is Bolivia's most valuable resource, yet the mines might just as well be in another country for all the prosperity they bring. Since nationalization in 1952, Communist union leaders, backed by a well-armed "workers' militia," have ruled the mines, and no government has dared call a halt to the appalling featherbedding, inefficiency and spiraling wages, which result in losses of more than $6,000,000 annually. No government, that is, except the present military junta headed by Co-Presidents René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando Candia. Last May the two generals drew up a harsh...
Stunted Growth. "Pictures must talk by themselves," Antes says, but many critics see a clue to his stunted gnomes in their resemblance to the deformed dwarf, Oskar Matzerath, of German Novelist Günter Grass's bestseller, The Tin Drum. As Antes seeks to show life from a different perspective, so Grass's Oskar, a moral hunchback who reaches his third year and refuses to grow any more, sees the world from chair level. There are striking parallels, too, between writer and painter. Both were born in the decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler...