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Paris and Helen took off together in a glorified canoe. Mark Antony and his Egyptian lady friend floated around in a perfumed barge. Louis XIV used a carriage, and Edward VII a train. Leander swam - and drowned. Today's expense-account philanderers pursue their sinful pleasures more securely via...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Love's Long Leap | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...Sept. 26, just a few days after his wife returned to Texas, Oswald got hold of a car (where, no one yet knows) and drove to Mexico City. He showed up at the Cuban consulate and applied for a transit visa for Moscow via Havana. Told that the procedure would take as long as twelve days, Oswald got angry (or so the Cubans claim), walked out slamming the door. Next day he appeared at the offices of the Russian consul-general, described himself as a militant Communist, asked for a visa for the Soviet Union. The consul told Oswald that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man Who Killed Kennedy | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Reminiscent Repression. For other East Germans relief comes via food parcels from West Germans, who this year will send some 50 million packages to friends and relatives. What is not eaten is sold or bartered, just as cigarettes or nylons were used as currency in the chaos after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: They Have Given Up Hope | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...shadow of the news spread across the world, it was received everywhere with stunned disbelief. The Empress of Iran broke into tears, as did the President of Tanganyika, and countless anonymous men and women. Along Rome's Via Veneto grief sounded operatic. "E morto!" people called to one another, and at a cocktail party the guests put down their glasses and began to recite the Lord's Prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nations: How Sorrowful Bad | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

McDonald, a thin, quiet man who reached his job via Annapolis, naval aviation, carrier service and top European commands, is painfully aware of the Navy's problems, but feels he can weather the storm. He is convinced that the Navy's case is a reasonable one, that McNamara and his aides are reasonable men. Says he of McNamara's decisions: "If I simply cannot live with the policy, I will face my superior with the fact and will either get his modification of the policy or will leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Stormy Days for the Navy | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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