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President Urho K. Kekkonen. winding up an 18-day official visit to the U.S.. got the news in Hawaii, calmly talked it over on the beach, dispatched his Foreign Minister to Helsinki ahead of schedule. Then he donned a pair of fire-red bathing trunks and went for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Diversion in Finland | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

Without Patois. Much of Murray's appeal lies in his iconoclastic approach to a branch of journalism that is densely populated with hero worshipers. To Murray, professional ballplayers are "skilled but one-talent guys, who should be grateful that baseball is around to pay them $80,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Sports | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

Israel's general election last week was conducted in a peculiar mood of pettishness and bad temper. In one Galilean village, 201 ballots were invalidated because they proved to be one-fifth of an inch smaller than regulation size. Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem refused to enter a polling place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Victorious Disaster | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

Among those who take dares, some men ride sharks; others guzzle a fifth of gin at one sitting. And some take the 162-ft. ride over Niagara Falls. So far as the records show, six men have gone over-in oak casks, steel barrels, truck inner tubes, bathing trunks-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Integrating the Falls | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

In San Francisco last week, players happily flailed at each other with elbows and knees, held opponents' heads underwater and tugged determinedly at their swim trunks. Said one: "If they ever staged this game in one of those pools with side windows for photographers, our whole team would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Underwater Mayhem | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

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