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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taipei the dashing 34-year-old ex-fighter pilot had easily charmed the Nationalists, already flattered by his visit, with a show of boyish derring-do and conviviality, and had delighted merchants with purchases of trinkets and gifts for the folks back home, including 60 long-playing record albums and three pairs of blue jeans. On a tour of Kung Kuan airbase, 80 miles outside Taipei, Ky got permission from Chinese brass to take a test spin in an American F-104, spent five minutes diving and banking, then taxied smartly up to the reviewing stand erected in his honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Getting to Know Them | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...front of the house. Every few days, Brigitte would wearily telephone Saint-Tropez Rescue Captain Jean Des-pas: "Another boat is on the rocks. Would you please come pull it off?" Boston's salty Richard Cardinal Gushing, 69, rumbled back to the auld sod for an eleven-day visit, cocked his cardinal's hat and began peppering the Irish countryside with foine, unclerical prose. "I was nearly going to be a Jesuit," he reported, "but on the night before I was to join the novitiate, I quit. The Jesuits have been thanking God ever since." And later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 20, 1965 | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

After the banquet came a three-hour visit with Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and President Liu Shao-chi. Malraux suddenly produced a letter for Mao from Charles de Gaulle. In Paris no one would say whether the letter was in Malraux's pocket when he left, or had reached him in Peking after he had advised the French embassy that things were going well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Mysterious Visitor | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...royalties to have reported. Out of the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport swarmed a large assortment of the famed clan, including a U.S. Senator or two, bound for a little light boating on the Marlin. At about the same time, who should traipse up the path to visit old Joe Kennedy at his 17-room cottage but Frank Sinatra, 49, his girl friend Mia Farrow, 19, and Hollywood Duennas Roz Russell and Claudette Col bert. After a greeting from Jackie and a lively chat with Joe, Frank and his crowd ambled back to Sinatra's 168-ft. chartered yacht Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 13, 1965 | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...First, the President wanted to know how long he would live. The seer touched his fingertips for the vibrations and minced no words: "Six months or less." "Will we remain allies with Russia?" a concerned F.D.R. wanted to know. "The visions show otherwise," she replied. On a second visit, she offered some advice on domestic policy: "The White House must not pamper the colored people, but rather help them to help themselves." F.D.R. seemed reluctant to see her go. "Take good care of the ball," he said. "Auf Wiedersehen" said Mrs. Dixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punditry: Seer in Washington | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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