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...navigational leg of a routine bimonthly courier flight across Turkey to Iran (see map], trespassed in Soviet airspace, was forced by two Soviet fighters to land just inside Soviet territory. U.S. airmen wondered if powerful Soviet radio transmitters had not interfered with the relatively weak signal from the U.S. beacon at Van-and if the Russians had not set their rig up to fool the pilots, flying on top of an overcast, into crossing the frontier. Soviet propagandists began cranking up a new point to old charges at the U.N. and elsewhere that the USAF was launching "provocative" flights across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Dealing with Kidnapers | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...albeit sordid--story of the artistic mentality in turmoil. Names have sometimes been changed, facts occasionally exaggerated, but the pattern remains the same. Harvard's Beat Generation is attempting to survive the summer on a dollar a day--waiting for the publisher's advance, the completed symphony, or a Beacon Street-sponsored gallery exhibition. It is a long, hot, and purgative summer; and, in its way, a time of epic proportions...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Down 'n' Out in Cambridge: The Soybean Cult | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...specific use for the purchase has not been determined, but "the land is the significant part," Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, said yesterday. The house, occupying a sizable plot, is located on Kirkland Street, between New Lecture Hall and Beacon Street, and the University-owned Holden Green Apartments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Administration Plans Purchase Of Eliot's Kirkland St. Residence | 5/8/1958 | See Source »

WHEREAS our Government has served as an inspiration and a beacon light for oppressed peoples of the world seeking freedom, justice and equality for the individual under laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: May Day, U.S.A. | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Bursting with the pride of nationhood, some 5,000 Israelis kindled the first festive beacon at dusk beside the Judean hilltop grave of Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism. Then, after a ten-gun salute boomed off Jordan's echoing hills (all heavily reinforced with Arab soldiery), 5,000 crack Israeli warriors took pride of martial place by parading through the City of David with gleaming tanks, guns and armored vehicles, in defiance of the armistice clause that prohibits any large number of troops and weapons within six miles of the Jordanian frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Trumpet's Sound | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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