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Determined to do something about his weakness for vodka that had earned him a record of minor brushes with the law, Army Veteran Carl Holm, 28, voluntarily went to a veterans mental hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. When he was given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courts: The Mental Patient's Rights | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

Any Negro−literate or illiterate−who does vote in future elections will have to bear with the ordinary frustrations of democracy: broken promises, corruption, demagoguery, the essential voting weakness of a minority. Perhaps Negroes will at first elect a number of Adam Clayton Powells. But Negro political influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEGRO AFTER WATTS | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

A Married Woman is the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who shook up the movie world five years ago with Breathless, and has made eight far-out features since−notably My Life to Live and A Woman Is a Woman. In this, as in most of his other films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: That Old Feeling | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

More powerful is Endikin and his readily expressed weakness and strength, submission and rebellion. He can be traced to the world that once was, where he was called sir.

Author: By Walters Kemp, | Title: Two One-Acts | 8/23/1965 | See Source »

Whether Johnson did or not is un known. But by that time it was probably too late for Dirksen's purposes. Unable to get an approving vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was forced to a crippling admission of weakness by presenting his proposal to the Senate in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Dirksen's Defeat | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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