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...TIME covers have caused as much stir as the Herblock cartoon on the Oct. 3 issue, showing Nikita Khrushchev and his leather-jacketed gang of "East Side Rockets" prowling a New York street near the United Nations Building. Readers liked it; the subjects were understandably silent. Then last week there came a reaction from Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, who was shown on the cover as a trenchcoated observer coolly watching from the sideline as K. and gang prowled. Belgrade's Vecernje Novosti (Evening News) carried a front-page picture of Tito and members of his executive council looking...
...teenagers, in jeans, flashy shirts and black leather motorcycle jackets, surrounded the trembling old man and jeered as he stripped off his clothes at their command. When his underwear was gone and he stood naked, the kids grinned, turned and strutted away. Suddenly one of the gang, 14 years old and illiterate, spun round and stalked back. "Here's something for you to wear," he snarled, brutally stabbing the old man twice, and leaving him critically injured. Packs of out-of-control teenagers, out for kicks or cash, are terrorizing Santiago, Chile. The Chileans call them coléricos...
...layers of cobwebs and dust, was the shriveled body of a woman, partly covered with a moth-eaten blanket and the decayed remnants of a blue dressing gown. The skull was bare of hair, the eye sockets were hollow, and the skin was parched to the color of dark leather and hard as rock. Beside the body lay an empty bottle of disinfectant...
Despite Castro's boast at the U.N. and elsewhere that he has reduced unemployment, some 700,000 workers are jobless, precisely the number under Batista. Downtown Havana's Galiano and Obispo streets are spotted with unemployed trying to peddle combs, hats, cigarettes, small leather goods. Those who have jobs face rugged taxation, even at the lowest unskilled wage level; a 3% income tax, a 4% "voluntary contribution" for industrialization, plus social security, union dues, and one-shot pass-the-hat campaigns cut the average worker's take-home...
Deep into the night, every night, Red sits up and writes a short story. He has them bound in red morocco leather, with the words "By Red Skelton" lettered on each volume in gold. None has been published or even read by any but his closest friends. The late Gene Fowler ("my only father"), who was to have been Skelton's biographer, once reported that every Skelton story was about a redhead-redheaded boys, redheaded men, even redheaded old ladies. He likes to paint, too, committing to canvas an endless series of clowns...