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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the embarrassed temple council set about saving face in the best Japanese tradition. Photographer Tsuchiya agreed to apologize publicly and destroy all his negatives. The two novices pictured most revealingly agreed to expulsion-and then reinstatement. Head Priest Mumon Yamada blamed it all on an influx of university-trained novices who lack moral fiber. Lamented Yamada: It was not so in the old days, when novices were poor boys without education or appetite for soft living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zensation | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...lament for everything that ever went wrong with love in Paris or anywhere else. Aging (43) Piaf seems hardly to have changed since she first appeared in Manhattan in 1947. Suave Vicky and wriggling Lilo only serve to set her off as what she is: the best torch singer in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: La Diff | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...bigness. It has devised the most skillful public relations campaign in U.S. industry to sell itself to the public. No one at A. T. & T. would ever dream of saying that what is good for A. T. & T. is good for the country; A. T.& T. is doing its best to make it hard for the public to tell where . A.T. & T. leaves off and the country begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Bronxville, N.Y. is distinguished only by its six telephones, which cost him nothing. He and his wife, a University of Minnesota girl, have two daughters. An elder of the Dutch Reformed Church, Kappel does not smoke, drinks rarely-but can play shirtsleeve poker (a quarter a raise) with the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Such cuts reflect the continuing abundance of most raw materials, which is the economy's best guarantee against a recurrence of inflation. Other signs of economic health last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Prices: Steady | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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