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Deep Thoughts. The U.S. was also a land willing to cope with its problems, private and public. Labor Day was at hand, there was a tang of autumn in the air, and the children had to be outfitted for school. The glare of U.S.rockets had mostly quieted the nervous outcry that arose after the Soviet's Sputnik I, and U.S. missile progress was continuing apace. The U.S. Capitol, seething with the great labor-reform battle, was buried in a Niagara of mail from the home folks. Western Union's Capitol branch put its employees on a twelve-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Curtain Going Up | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

RAIL STRIKE INSURANCE pact is virtually certain of adoption by major railroad managements in preparation for negotiating the new long-term contracts in autumn. Plan is similar in principle to airlines' strike pact (TIME, Nov. 10), would insure strikebound railroads for up to $600,000 per day to cover all fixed operating expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...inventive form. A master of the dramatic effects of silence, he sometimes sits for as much as 16 bars without touching a key ("A pattern," he points out, "can be completed in space"). He rarely repeats himself in a chorus, may go in one brief number-Autumn in New York or The Girl Next Door-through a kaleidoscopic range of moods, most of them merely suggested. by a rhythmic break, a lightly lyric flight in the right hand, a sudden shifting of dynamic gears. Ahmad can build his musical ideas with such subtlety that the listener often has the sensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Syncopated Silence | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...autumn Festival of the Eighth Moon, some five months after Soong's death, his body was gilded by a member of his congregation. A red satin cloak was draped around his gilded shoulders, and he was placed in a glass case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

French Line retired the 31-year-old Ile de France last autumn, sold her to a Japanese scrap merchant named Seichi Okada, who for the last few weeks has been collecting $4,000 a day in rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: A Take to Remember | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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