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...white Los Angeles, Watts is as much as ever a far country, inacces sible, invisible, incomprehensible. Yet in the six weeks since the ugliest riots in U.S. history made Watts a household word, city, state and federal agencies have worked overtime in a belated at tempt to understand and help the Negro community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: The Far Country | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

Japanese and Korean leftists quickly took to the streets in protest. The ugliest riots took place in Seoul, where crowds rampaged through the streets and gathered under the statue of Yong Hwan Min, a Korean national hero who stabbed himself to death in protest against Japanese aggression in 1905. Seoul cops cracked scores of skulls, carted off more than 1,000 demonstrators to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: A Treaty for Tomorrow | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...sheriff's rescue teams worked in the debris, another tornado whipped into sight. "It looked as if it was coming right for us," said Caton. "It looked very big. It didn't have that kind of corkscrew-type spiral. This one looked like the stem off the ugliest kind of mushroom I'd ever want to see." The tornado shifted course, and the sheriff jumped into his car to follow it. He arrived at a residential section about two miles away to see a nightmare of death and walking wounded amid a totally shattered landscape. "Trees were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Up the Alley | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...leaning hoodlums who had led the anti-Arab coup-still stalk the streets armed with Russian burp guns. They are backed by the 30-man Revolutionary council, a gang of malcontents led by Peking's pal Abdul Rahman Mohamed, better known as "Babu," probably East Africa's ugliest and brightest politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tanzania: The Road to Union Is Paved with Good Intentions | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...impresario who discovered her, "but in the theater one virtue has never been as handy as a couple of vices." And virtue was not her only handicap. In the day of the hourglass figure, Yvette was as bony as the Eiffel Tower, and, over all, decided Oscar Wilde, the ugliest woman in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Knowing Virgin | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

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