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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief Adolf A. Berle met an icy reserve that bordered on hostility. Two months ago, Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, in Brazil to present Quadros with aid of nearly $1 billion, got a somewhat bigger hello, but was still hustled in and out of Brasilia's Planalto Palace via the underground garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Hello, But No Help | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

After Kennedy won the election (with a campaign that included a speech via telephone to students and "brain trusters" at the University--"the only audience that can understand my accent"), students viewed with pride the increasing favorable publicity upon Harvard. "The Crucible That Turns out Presidents," headlined an Associated Press story throughout the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Frontier Wants Faculty; Students Want Latin Diplomas | 6/21/1961 | See Source »

...crashed to the bathroom floor, broke his left leg in two places. Facing three weeks of hospitalization and the rest of his campaign on crutches, Mitchell turned the accident into a good break, collected sympathy along with signatures on the cast, and prepared to run as hard as ever via tape recordings and telephone hookups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

Died. John Perona, 64, improbable arbiter of international café society, an Italian peasant's son who emigrated to Manhattan as a 17-year-old bus boy (via Argentina, where he worked as Heavyweight Luis Firpo's sparring partner), later for three decades operated the city's most caste-conscious nightclub, El Morocco; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...hunchbacked woman fashion human flesh out of mysterious chemicals. At another séance, at which the spirits became very annoyed, witnesses reported that "Willie Yeats was banging his head on the table as though he had a fit, muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy, but he doubtless was not amused by the "seer" who responded: "I have a vision of a square pond, but I can see your thought, and you expect me to see an oblong pond." On another humorously humorless occasion, the poet deputed a vampire to plague one of his enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd & Haunting Master | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

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