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...television cameras whirred and the reporters scribbled, Jomo flashed toothy smiles, produced charm, vigor, and quick answers in a three-hour verbal marathon. Belying the stories of his senility, Kenyatta looked at least ten years younger than his admitted 71 years. He wore a fly whisk chained to his wrist with a band of silver, sported a gay red tie and a brand-new leather jacket. As he spoke, the old, grey-flecked spade beard bobbed emphatically: "I shall always be an African nationalist to the end . . . but I have never been a violent man ... I condemned and denounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: A Word from Jomo | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...composer like Mozart, his performances can be erratic, but few pianists have Janis' flair for the big bravura pieces of Tchaikovsky or Liszt. Last week's concert, studded with thunderous chords and octaves, Zipperlike runs and occasionally a singing, tenoresque line, proved to be a wrist-breaking tour de force. When he came out to take a bow, looking as frail as Liszt himself, Pianist Janis seemed the least exhausted man in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barometers & Pianos | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Harvest on the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov. The hero of this novel is a Communist, but so are most of the villains. Though Khrushchev reportedly twisted Sholokhov's wrist till he wrote a party-line ending, the book sings with an individualism that is remarkably nonMarxist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Mar. 3, 1961 | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

Louis A. Maheney '10, a Wall St banker and resident of New York City, suffered a skull and broken left leg and wrist when an automobile and a taxicab crashed near Center on Saturday night. He was on his why to an aiumni dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accident Injures Alumnus | 2/20/1961 | See Source »

...unforgivable sin in professional basketball is "bridging," or "tunneling," in which a defensive man slyly ducks under a player who is driving for a layup. In one celebrated case of bridging, the Celtics' Bob Harris broke the left wrist of Schayes in 1954. Bridging is now rare, as is the unprovoked, intentional foul calculated to injure. "If a guy belts me on a legitimate play, fine and dandy," says Twyman. "I'll belt him down at the other end. But if a guy is dirty, really dirty, he's out to lunch. He can't watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Graceful Giants | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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