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...emerge wearing high, tan moccasins, skintight, sky-blue pants and flowing fuchsia shirt. Scattered about the living room are effects that mark the mystery of the man -gilt-bound tomes of Balzac and Schiller next to a pile of toys that he amuses himself with: a soccer game, a Yo-Yo, a gun that shoots pingpong balls. And everywhere there are model train locomotives, which he collects in honor of his origin. He used his earnings of about $2,800 per performance to buy an $80,000 walled-in villa tucked away in the mountains above Monte Carlo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Man in Motion | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...Yo-Yo." But lest anyone mistake image-polishing for softness on Democrats, Goldwater rolled up his oratorical sleeves and walloped away with a vengeance. In Charlotte, N.C., he likened Lyndon Johnson to a dictator of despotic power, and in Odessa, Texas, to Neville Chamberlain. Over and over he linked Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as a team that seemed devoted to the ruination of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Images & Oratory | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...twisting and turning, pulling on the control lines as he tries to maneuver the chute through the wind to the bull's-eye. In 1962, using standard chutes, there were times when the jumpers looked like they were hanging on the end of a Yo-Yo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parachuting: Dive for the Bull's-Eye | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...Yo-Yo Effect. Schriever was so confident of Minuteman's feasibility that he saved a full year by ordering all three stages and all systems of a Minuteman fired as a unit on the first test-an unheard-of procedure in the normal piece-by-piece sequence of missile development. Reports an official Air Force history: "The results were sensational. All stages worked perfectly, the guidance system performed accurately, and the instrumented re-entry vehicle made a very near miss on a target some 4,000 miles downrange." Minuteman, in Schriever's view, has tipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: A Decade of Deadly Birds | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...closest he came to winning a ma jor championship last year was a play off loss to aging Julius Boros in the U.S. Open, and he had not won a tournament of any sort in six months. "I've been playing like a Yo-Yo," he complained. "It's my concentration; I can't seem to keep my mind on the game." Or maybe it was nerves: on doctor's orders, Palmer had quit smoking, gained 8 Ibs., and felt like climbing the walls. Whatever it was, it was downright embarrassing. Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Take That, You People's Choice | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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