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...together were valued at $32,500. For six hours of nonstop grilling, Walcott refused to admit his true identity. Then, according to the police, he broke down and began to tell all. Acting on his information, police have already pulled in several suspects and some smuggling gear, including a jacket with specially constructed pockets for carrying gold bars. Many Bombay gold traders were anxious, for rumor had it that Walcott had been mixed up with a gang that had smuggled no less than $150 million in gold and diamonds into India during the past four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Good Bad Man | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...reference to Mary Frances as being stodgy was made about another performer in the cast. If Mary Frances is stodgy, then Sammy Davis is taciturn, moribund and laconic. For weeks at a time we have to keep her in a strait jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1966 | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...fellow cyclist. "He was so righteous. Any time there was a party, he was the first one there and the last to leave." When the "chicks" in leather boots and dark tights, usually proud of their toughness, saw the open casket with Miles's "colors," a sleeveless jacket bearing the Hell's Angels' emblem, they sobbed. Only after the funeral oration, when the coffin was placed in the hearse, did the sound that Miles lived and died by suddenly deafen the bystanders as the cortege gunned its way to the cemetery. "We wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Requiem for an Angel | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...record jacket reads Best of the Beatles, and it was a hot seller in the Christmas rush-or at least it was before it was brought up at a New York State Bureau of Consumer Frauds' hearing. Despite the billing, the album does not contain a collection of the best of the Beatles' hits-or even a single song by the Beatles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Best of the Beatles | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...pose as Strelnikov on the platform of the armored train: "No dialogue. No expression. But that bloody scene took two days to shoot." Geraldine Chaplin's most vivid memory is working in the hot Spanish sun while wearing black wool stockings, boots, three sweaters and a fur jacket: "I was so soaking wet, I felt I was leaving big soggy footprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Oscar Bound | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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