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SUDAN. Some shoebill storks imported from the Sudan make like clowns, but the main attention-getter here is a fragile Madonna and Child painted on the mud walls of a church around the 8th century and discovered last year by U.N. archaeologists scurrying to preserve antiquities from the Aswan Dam backwaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: PAVILIONS | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...Constitution are a disgrace to all red-blooded white Southerners. Roy V. Harris, a rallier of the state's racists, usually refers to the Constitution's publisher as "Rastus" Ralph McGill. While in office, Congressman Davis frequently castigated the papers from the House floor. "The mud throwing of this collection of little peewees," he said in 1961, "amounts to about as much as a flock of grassbirds*in a fence corner chattering at an eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Another Voice in Atlanta | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...graveyards, little girls and boys sold into prostitution-Restif saw them all. And he set them down as he saw them, in odd, choppy verbal snapshots, some grotesque, a few funny, but all in appalling contrast to the occasional fine lady or powdered gentleman whose carriage splatters them with mud or casually kills someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes of a Gutter Rousseau | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...circle as equally bored equestriennes strip while balancing on their backs. Along the Raper, a tourist can shoot a fake duck, get a tattoo, watch an "intimate" movie in Technicolor, or cheer a brace of Amazons clad only in black panties as they wrestle in a tub of mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Reform Along the Raper | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...they dance in Guinea, buy a fez from Morocco, eat a soft-shell Maryland crab. While the Malaysians aren't looking, you can run Malaysian tin ore through your fingers. You can eat walleyed pike from Minnesota and see a chef from India baking bread in mud pots. In the calm oasis of the Irish pavilion, you can drink coffee primed with Irish whisky and listen on earphones to actors like Micheal MacLiammoir and Siobhan McKenna reading Yeats, Swift or Synge. In the Indonesian pavilion, you can look over the Indonesian girls that were personally selected by President Sukarno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: The World of Already | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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