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Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off an ultimatum to Reykjavik that called up memories of gunboats and a whiff of grape. Reason: Iceland last week proclaimed, effective Sept. 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Whiff of Grape | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Since the AEC's Chairman Lewis Strauss firmly opposes any test-suspension agreement on the ground that the Russians would cheat, and influential Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller supports Strauss by insisting that they technically could cheat, the 2,050-mile mistake caused a flurry of accusations that the AEC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Political Shock Wave | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

The man whom Ben Hecht dubbed "The White Fang" ran Columbia as if he were the master of an ancient trireme. He had no illusions about his popularity-and cared less. "If you print anything good about me," he once told a reporter, "nobody will believe it." He got the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Last Cinemogul | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

If the Explorer stays up as long as expected, the slow shift of its orbit will give information about irregularities in the earth's gravitational field. Its radio signals, coming down through the atmosphere, by their fading and bending will describe ionized layers of air they have passed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 1958 Alpha | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Bending a Rule. The exertions of the winning 1956 campaign, piled on top of the President's two illnesses, dampened the Administration's drive in the second term-and made Jim Hagerty's job that much harder. Although the slowdown was yearlong, it got talked about most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Authentic Voice | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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