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...with arsenic her mother, father, two husbands, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandmother-in-law, two cousins, great-aunt, and two close friends. Last week, after twelve years and three trials, one of the century's most intricate murder cases-and one of the longest-came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Arsenic & No Case | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...held out longest was Rodriguez Echaverria. He ordered out hired thugs and government sound trucks to try to woo the mob and break the strike. Then Rodriguez Echaverria stiffly rejected as ''inadmissible" a compromise plan that Puppet Balaguer quietly proposed to Dr. Viriato Fiallo, head of the opposition U.C.N., under which Balaguer would resign in favor of a Swiss-style Council of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Dancing in the Streets | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...world's longest shows was on the road again: in a conference room of Geneva's Palais des Nations, U.S., British and Russian negotiators last week met in the 341st session of the East-West nuclear test-ban talks, which have been going off and on since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Ho-Hum | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Mousetrap is the longest-running play in the history of the British theater, and has been since the day nearly five years ago when it passed the 2,238-performance record set by Oscar Asche's Chu-Chin-Chow, which opened in London in 1916. It has also surpassed Broadway's record-holding Life with Father by 521 performances.* The Mousetrap has become a prime attraction for British tourists down from the provinces, rivaling the Tower of London, and the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Stick with the Corpus, Christie | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

This is the attitude which gave the Crimson eleven, for the first time in years, an emotional and psychological consistency. The team did not let down for the remaining contests with Penn, Princeton, Brown, and Yale, winning five consecutive games for the longest Crimson winning streak since...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Yovicsin Praises 'Cinderella' Squad, Credits Seniors for Ivy Championship | 11/29/1961 | See Source »

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