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...West Germany. Until the Francis Gary Powers case, the U-2 operation was a major intelligence success. The CIA is also credited with obtaining superior information about Soviet military developments and Chinese nuclear-weapons progress, and with sound assessments of the situation in Viet Nam (which were frequently ignored 6y policymakers). Among its setbacks: the Bay of Pigs, although this was a failure of decision making as well as intelligence, and the failure to warn of the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961 or Khruschchev's fall from power in 1964. In some cases, the agency was plagued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Spies: Foot Soldiers in an Endless War | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...among the top ten in polls, had to fight both a muddy field and a tough Florida team, had to settle for a o-o tie. ¶ Princeton, top-heavy favorite to walk off with Ivy League honors, looked less than tigerish against little Lafayette, had to complete a 6y-yd. pass in the last five minutes to pull the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lo, the Poor Irishmen | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...there were a few exceptions-new models, as it were-which caused somewhat the same sensation as if Citroen had brought out a futuristic Kiddie Kar. They were eleven paintings which came straight from the nursery of the villa at Vallauris, where 6y-year-old Picasso and Franchise Gillot, his handsome young mistress, live with their two children, Claude (two) and Paloma (five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Papa Picasso | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...WORDSWORTH ANTHOLOGY-Co//ec/-ec/ 6y Laurence Housman-Scrlbner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Perfect Speech | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Sympathized with the 6y-year-old Baron Buckmaster of Cheddington, a sponsor of the Liquor Control Bill, when he received a savage tongue-lashing from the 56-year-old Earl of Birkenhead, famed Secretary of State for India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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