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...swollen face, the wide-open mouth and the worried eyes of Martin Luther King on your cover were magnificent. Here is exemplified a man swollen with dissatisfaction-a dissatisfaction that can easily mean the difference between leaders and men of average performance. And the most marvelous thing about this man. Dr. King, is that his action is expressed through love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

This year the freshman quintet is playing a wide-open, running game. They have a lot of speed and shooting ability, as shown by their two 100-plus scorings this season. The team works a man-to-man defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Quintet Relies On Fast, Wide-Open Game | 1/7/1965 | See Source »

...paychecks. A fellow congressman, one Tenorio Cavalcanti, 58, required almost no investigation: he was already well known as a fulltime gangster (13 killings to his credit) and the sin czar who-fully protected by his congressional immunity -built Duque de Caxias, on Rio's northern outskirts, into a wide-open vice mecca famed for its brothels, gambling dens, brawling street fights and general folderol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Part of What Was Wrong | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...Yankee who started racing "dog boats" off Martha's Vineyard when he was twelve, Bill Cox is an old hand at judging tides and winds in protected waters, knows Long Island Sound as well as his own bathtub. He will lose that advantage when the twelves move to wide-open Rhode Island Sound. There, 6-ft. swells are common, and the boats sometimes race in 40-knot winds. But if he was worried, Cox did not show it. "The boat is great," he said. "This crew is the best any 12-meter ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yachting: Giving Them the Bird | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...Cantwell (Cliff Robertson), Russell's opponent, plays dirty, and most of the film concerns Russell's attempt to decide whether he should use Cantwell's own methods to fight back. The personal battle is played against the noise and glitter of a wide-open convention, done up for the screen with superb realism...

Author: By Edwin Walter, | Title: The Best Man | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

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