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As for Egyptian intelligence, it still has egg on its face. The best story the embassy could come up with was that some fiend had switched trunks on them. The trunk itself had been made in Italy and was one of an ordinary commercial line that was discontinued several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Spy Who Came In from the Trunk | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

In some future Olympics, other athletes would swim faster, jump higher, throw farther; and some day it might not matter any longer that the U.S. had beaten Russia in their private battle for supremacy in the Games (see box). But the memories would stay -of Bob Schul sprinting across the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: A Kind of Special Immortality | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

A Bridge of Green. Harlem became a place of brownstone fronts and Saratoga trunks. Oscar Hammerstein built the Harlem Opera House: it now houses a bowling alley. William Waldorf Astor put up a $500,000 apartment house on Seventh Avenue. Commodore Vanderbilt showed off his trotters on Lenox Avenue. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Place Like Home | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

Routine. As a result, what had been shaping up as a grim meeting designed to chart a potentially risky new course in Southeast Asia suddenly turned into a routine conference on the war in South Viet Nam-the 14th such meeting in Hawaii since December 1961. At a working lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Something Happened to the Crisis | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Philadelphia's twelve-year-old playground program has cost $30 million, is generally acknowledged to be the most successful in the country. No two of the city's 347 recreational facilities are identical: one has a series of concrete castles, one a squirrel house, another a spray pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Way Out to Play | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

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