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...like the young man. He is serious, decent, good at his job, but obviously afraid of something-something in himself? He reports to his parole officer, the psychiatrist (Rod Steiger) who treated him for three years in prison. As they talk, the past cracks open like a troubled tomb and horribly yields up its specters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Compulsion & Salvation | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...Which produced the largest piece of marble ever cut by man-a zoo-ton hunk that was trimmed to make the 56-ton topping of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Va. Other structures made of Marble marble: the Lincoln Memorial, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the San Francisco, Cleveland and Denver city halls, Manhattan's Municipal Building, and Chicago's telephone building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Deaths of a Church | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...high-arcing trip. Khrushchev led Titov's pretty young wife Tamara to the Moscow airport to greet the newest Soviet spaceman and smother him with kisses. It was a gooey occasion. Thousands of Muscovites jammed Red Square to toast Titov as he stood saluting atop Lenin's tomb, while helicopters overhead rained tiny, multicolored pictures of Titov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: I Am Eagle | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

Brains & Backbone. Next morning, after only two hours of sleep, Ayub showed up at 9 a.m. to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then checked in at the White House for a long, serious talk with the President. This time, he came bearing gifts: two Pakistani rugs for the President, a painting for Mrs. Kennedy, a doll for Caroline and two silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Brass & Iron | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Died. Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, the 4th Baron Westbury, 46. unemployed ex-soldier heir of the legendary "Curse of the Pharaohs," which purportedly killed three kinsmen and numerous members of the 1922 archaeological team that excavated the more than 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen; of a heart attack; in Geneva. Secretary to the Egyptian expedition that uncovered the hieroglyphic anathema-"Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of the Pharaoh"-Lord Westbury 's father died six years after the discovery (also at 46), while his grandfather (who kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 7, 1961 | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

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