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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accept the tribe's (or chief's) decision once rendered. And indeed a certain amount of discussion filters up from the ranks to the top in parties like TANU, even in Nkrumah's monolithic Convention People's Party. Osagyefo recently told a visitor that he not only listened intently to the dissenting opinions of Ghana's "market mammies" but accepted them with alacrity: after all, the mammies control much of the nation's retail trade, hence hold much of its cash. The situation is familiar to any Madison Avenue man working on a consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Who Is Safe? | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...Mexico for a four-day state visit next week in a French-built Caravelle. And what kind of reception will le grand Charles get? Possibly not the thunderous outpouring that President Kennedy received, but a very special abrazo just the same. Wrote Mexico's Politica magazine: "The illustrious visitor comes with the personality characteristic of an independent country that has detached herself from the tutelage of the U.S." In Latin America, so long and so completely dependent on the U.S., De Gaulle is getting to be the image of El Macho, the big boy, who has shown everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: El Macho Comes to Call | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

Munich has without a doubt the greatest zest for living and letting live of any city in the world. I know of no visitor to this paradise on the Isar who has not left a portion of his psyche "am Stachus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 6, 1964 | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Built Right In. California, with its high divorce rate (half as many as marriages), high incomes and highly sophisticated industries, is the hard-heartland of the U.S. bugging industry. Espionage is so commonplace in oil, chemical and aerospace companies that many California executives begin to fidget if a visitor so much as sets a briefcase beside him. Another busy Bugsville is Miami, where horseplayers, weekending couples and Latino intrigue support a host of electronic moonlighters who make eavesdropping gadgets in their spare time and sell to anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Bug Thy Neighbor | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...through leading hotels. When they want to tune in on a guest, they ask the hotel management to steer him to one of these sonic studios. If the guest balks, an agent needs only a few minutes to sneak up and secrete several bugs in the room assigned the visitor; then a team of technicians moves into an adjoining room to set up listening and recording apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Bug Thy Neighbor | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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