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Yet Pat Brown is no political anomaly and he has contracted a good case of undulant presidential fever. Two Brown agents, Lawyers Leonard Dieden and John Purchio, scouted twelve Western states last summer, reported temptingly that the West was still wild and wide open for any candidate who moved fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Now, Brown? | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The military students seem less Edwardian than determined. Air Academy-man Hosmer (No. 1 in his class) is backed by West Pointers Jim Ray (No. 2 in his class), Stan Karanowski (No. 3), Powell Hutton (No. 4), Mike Gillette (No. 23) and Pete Dawkins (No. 10), West Point's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Assignment: Oxford | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

"Most Latin American Presidents have money," said Brazilian ex-President Joao Cafe Filho last week, his tone a bit wistful. "I did not have anything when I took office, and I had nothing when I left." Four years after he left the presidency, Cafe Filho (TIME, Cover, Dec. 6, 1954...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Good ex-President | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Strangers at a Wedding. Behind the dome is the glass pavilion, a sprawling (50,000 sq. ft.) building of glass and steel with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. It is the cultural center of the exposition, with everything from a Stuart portrait of Washington to the latest model kitchen. Scrutinizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.S. IN MOSCOW: Russia Comes to the Fair | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

The sicknik mood and method range all the way from the wistful social desperation of Elaine May and Mike Nichols, who are barely sick at all-just an occasional mild symptom-to the usually vicious barrage of Lenny Bruce. Where Elaine and Mike meditate on the problem of a stranded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Sickniks | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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