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Corpsmen have piled up hundreds of these tiny triumphs-ranging from teaching the twist in Nyasaland to growing lettuce in Brazil to building badminton courts in Borneo. They have been treed by African buffaloes, serenaded by Filipino gigolos, adopted as sons by Southeast Asian aborigines, frightened by playful natives tossing pythons in their laps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Peace Corps: It Is Almost As Good As Its Intentions | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...course, corrupting. Disquaires have the added pleasure of watching their spell take effect. Soon they start talking like Che Guevara. "I manipulate the crowd," says the woman disquaire at New Jimmy's in Paris. "I play four or five slows, then I attack with a twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instrumentalists: The Compleat Virtuosi | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...there are two-hour seminar sessions on the great ideas, and every evening there is a lecture, concert or dramatic performance. Despite the taxing schedule, the high-schoolers, 30 of whom are varsity football players, have plenty of surplus energy left over for swimming, tennis, basketball and doing the twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Schools: A Boon to the Gifted | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...course, had earlier managed a tandem space shot, with two men. This time, though, the expectation was that they would try to "dock" the two capsules together aloft, thus possibly permitting one of the pair of cosmonauts to transfer into the spacecraft of the other. Even if this extra twist does not come off, the duo flight once again proves that Russia is at least two years ahead of the U.S. in space, and moreover, knows how to woo the world's females. Stated purpose of the Valery-Valentina feat: to study the impact of space "on the organism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Romanoff & Juliet | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...Twist in the Dugout. Wagner is the Angels' clowning glory. He heckles opposing players "unconsciously" (he means unmercifully), dances the twist in the dugout, and gleefully polices the "Outhouse"-the section in the back of the team bus reserved for goof-offs after each Angel game. Wagner's credentials are perfect for the job. Part Negro, part Cherokee Indian, he grew up in Detroit, and decided early that the way to fun and fortune was to be afootball star. But, alas, at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute he learned that college football players do not always get paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Policeman of the Outhouse | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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