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...Boat traffic along the Congo River was virtually at a standstill; in the towns, shops were closed and deserted; the battered government cars on the streets of Stanleyville, with their smashed fenders and broken windows, looked like stock-car racing relics. The once menacing empire of Antoine Gizenga, heir to Patrice Lumumba's mantle, was crumbling fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Fading Boss | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Divorced. By Jenny Ann ("Pia") Lindstrom, 23, honey blonde daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom: Fuller Earle Callaway III, 29, heir to a Georgia textile fortune, whom Jenny charged with acts of extreme cruelty, including pushing her down a staircase "in front of guests"; after 22 months of marriage, no children; in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 22, 1961 | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...ready to assault Herblock's favorite target: the conservative. Artistic discipline generally keeps his passionate partiality within decent bounds (although he once showed former Vice President Richard M. Nixon crawling out of a sewer). But last week, as he sighted in on conservative U.S. Senator (and heir to Phoenix's Goldwaters department store) Barry M. Goldwater, nothing held Herblock back. He got off one of the lowest blows in his editorial-cartooning career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Low Blow | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

From Windfall Widow Alicja Kopczynska Purdom Clark-who during the week downgraded her age from 32 to 28 and doubled her estimated inheritance (TIME, Dec. 1) to $20 million-came new light on her 13-day marriage to the late Singer Sewing Machine Heir Alfred Corning Clark. Insisted the Polish-born playgirl, who dabbles in painting between café society rounds: "This money would have been left to me whether I married Mr. Clark or not." Echoed her attorney: "Even if the marriage [Clark's sixth] had not survived, she would have gotten it all." Why? Well, explained Alicja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1961 | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...right. In the name of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Trujillo clan ruled the island as their own and enriched themselves. After the old dictator was assassinated last May as he rode to a rendezvous with his mistress, the fiefdom fell into the uncertain hands of his son and heir, Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, who with U.S. approval was doing his best to arrange a peaceful transition. Last week, returning from exile, Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate bid to reéssert the bloody dictatorship. It took a triple play to defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Triple Play | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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