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...northeast, using both live singers and films in popular traveling road shows. After a mohlam refrain like "May I sleep with you, beautiful girl, may I?", the singers come on with "Our Thai brethren should not forget that Thai people can be owners of land, but in Communist countries land belongs to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Holder of the Kingdom, Strength of the Land | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...petition, presently circulating throughout the University asks the Harvard administration to refrain from supplying information on class rank, either directly to draft boards or to students themselves, until a referendum can be held to determine undergraduate opinion on the question. The petition is sensibly worded and deserves wide-spread support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For A Referendum | 5/25/1966 | See Source »

Revolutionary Refrain. Offstage, Pierre Antoine Muraccioli, 21, is not at all in the same alienated, humorless bag with his U.S. precursors. His constant refrain is "Je m'en fous" (I don't give a damn) but actually he does; he spends his days conscientiously studying engineering. "I don't figure on revolutionizing the world," he says. Obviously he is enjoying it too much to change it. After graduation, he figures on packing his guitar and Puccis for a fall concert tour of the States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: C'est la Hair | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...dolls in indigo on gold: refrain...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman-II | 4/13/1966 | See Source »

...Francisco, denied that the clubs were either Communist-led or organized, calling the Justice Department's citation "part and parcel of the policies of the Johnson Administration to suppress and silence critics of its dirty little war in Viet Nam." That at least was a new refrain for the old unchanging tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Warning to the Unwary | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

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