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...fellow Islamic state. Iran also supported Pakistan. In every Pakistani paper there were photo spreads of President Ayub Khan flanked on one side by the Shah of Iran and China's Chou Enlai, on the other by Indonesia's Sukarno and Turkey's President Güsel. "These are our friends," read the caption in one paper. "They support us," said another. So far, at least, the support has been strictly vocal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Encirclement in Asia | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...zones of privacy" emanate from the First Amendment's "penumbra" right of association, the Third Amendment's prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" without consent in peacetime, the fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures," and the fifth's privilege against sel-incrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Emanations from a Penumbra | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...four men worked in shirtsleeves, practicing alone on the barren stage, rigid on their chairs, laboring in total concentration to draw from their instruments the warm, expressive voices that exemplify the string quartet. They moved quickly through the music, sel dom speaking, marking cues in their scores, skipping past the easy to bear down on the difficult. Then, with only a brief break to relax from the tension of the severe rehearsal, the Juilliard String Quartet strode to center stage at the Tanglewood Theater-Concert Hall last week, greeted a rapt audience with deep bows, and presented a program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quartets: Conversation of Strings | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

...Cover) In the folklore of American capital ism, the rich boy sometimes seems to have less chance of success than the poor boy. Americans build fortunes, but sel dom dynasties. And enough fortunes have been wasted away by the sons of rich men to give truth to the saying: "From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three gen erations." No one had a better chance to make this saying come true again than the Ford brothers, Henry, Benson and William, grandsons of the unpredictable, profound ly radical genius who began the age of mass production and created a billion-dollar empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Rouge & the Black | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...newly elected graduate members of Phi Beta Kappa, have been sel- acted because Phi Beta Kappa thought their overall college records merit recognition for scholastic achievement. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Chooses Eight Juniors, 30 Graduates | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

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