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...complaining against some service or some minor bureaucrat. They have a private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn into tidy squares, they wait on the porcelain tank of the toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Is Not Truth | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

That night, while his guards dozed, Stryguine jumped out of bed as if heading for the bathroom, but leaped instead through a first-floor window. He fell twelve feet to the ground, got up unsteadily, lurched across the courtyard to a guardroom, crying, "Help, Burma army! Help, Burma army!" but the watching

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: No Escape | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Bathroom Rafter. The court had ordered Amiel to pay 3,000,000 francs' ($6,113) damages to the Rollands, and Mme. Amiel prepared to sell their new house to raise the money, proudly refused financial help from her husband's fellow teachers. Several days after the court had awarded damages to the Rollands, an anonymous letter postmarked Paris arrived at their home. "Congratulations on the good business," it read. "Several million francs-now there's a death that pays off ..." Leaving a note that said, "I am going to join Alain," Banker Rolland last week tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Why? Why? | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else if they like." Incidentally, the main reason Kassem rides through Baghdad every afternoon is not to receive the applause of the crowds, but to visit his suburban home for a bath: the Defense Ministry, where Kassem sleeps, has no bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...shut the door behind himself and fled down the stairs, across the courtyard, and up the stairs to his own room. He at for a moment in an armchair and then went to the bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fried Shoes | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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