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The cool veranda, with its silvery curtains and pale green furnishings, is always a quiet and tranquil place. There is a soft, slurring sound of slippered feet from within, and an aide comes to attention: "The President." The man who steps onto the veranda is all in black-black skullcap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Man of the Single Truth | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

The laughs come as thick as tarts in Montmartre-the audience sees them coming and begins to grin-but the script (by Robert Buckner) mereiy adjusts its monocle, stares, bows ever so sligntiy, and declines to pick them up. Guinness obviously does not care so much if the audience gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

It is all real, but really only a part of Japan. The stenographer who trips along in high heels and Western dress is often hurrying home for a quiet lesson in flower arranging. The man who elbows his way into an elevator jammed with strangers will a moment later bow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Land of the Reluctant Sparrows | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

On hearing of the affront to their neighbor, the vintner's friends decided to arouse the town by ringing the bell of St. Martin's Church. Immediately, scores of citizens sprang to arms, started shooting at the scholars with their bows. This brought forth the chancellor of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Whom the Bells Tolled | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

The picture, one of the most fanciful and macabre of all of Rivera's heavy-handed propaganda paintings, shows a servile, rat-faced Castillo Armas shaking hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Castillo Armas bows low; at his belt is an automatic pistol, and in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Communist Valentine | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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