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Amid jeers from the opposition and tight-lipped silence from his own benches, Harold Macmillan rose listlessly to defend his policies. In a tired voice that at times was barely audible above Labor's barracking, he spoke for nearly an hour, dusted off half a dozen Macminimal economic palliatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Their Tiredest Hour | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

This story could have been sheer slumgullion, but under Sam Peckinpah's tasteful direction it is a minor chef-d'oeuvre among westerns. Shot near California's Mammoth Lakes, the film owes much of its beauty to nature. The camera hovers with loving grace over limpid, mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Westerns | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

The criminal-hero marked for destruction is a tight-lipped swaggering cock of the prison walk named Johnny Bannion (Stanley Baker). Even Chief Warder Barrows (Patrick Magee) caters to Bannion. Indeed, Losey's knowing development of the prison's internal and external linkup of influence peddling helps to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kingdom of Crime | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

The great walnut doors of the U.S. House of Representatives swung wide, and Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller announced in his drawlingest Mississippi delivery the arrival of a distinguished member. Through the door came a tall, gaunt man with a shock of white hair, rimless glasses and a thin-lipped smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Mr. Speaker | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Back at the ranch in Texas, the Murchisons were tight-lipped-but keeping their powder dry. Scarcely had Kirby made his move when the Murchisons sold off to Dallas Millionaire Troy Post for $17.5 million almost all their holdings in Florida's Gulf Life Insurance Co. Immediately, the financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Round 2 for Allegheny? | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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