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In a briefing session just before the presidential press conference last week, Press Secretary Jim Hagerty warned his boss that questions on partisan politics had been building up for days. Hagerty passed along samples that had come into his office, and Eisenhower roughly laid out his line of reply. A...
Jubilee is something new in Roman Catholic publishing in the U.S.-a good upper-middlebrow monthly that cuts a path of its own between the intellectual themes of such small-circulation magazines as Commonweal and the Catholic World and the folksy but heavy-handed news-plus-doctrine of the average...
Thick Soup. Last week a TIME correspondent watched a 6-47 squadron at Upper Heyford, England get ready for a routine day's work. (The squadron had recently flown from Limestone Air Force Base in Maine to England in 4 hr. and 37 min.) First, on the day before...
The crews were in bed by 8 p.m. They were up at 3 a.m. for a breakfast of two slices of French toast and two or three huge cups of coffee. (Each man paid for his own breakfast: 55^.) By 3:30 a.m., they were in the weather shack for...
Dulles departed in a week which really belonged to economics, not international politics. The week's basic news lay in President Eisenhower's $65.6 billion budget and its recognition of the importance of the U.S. economic system in the overall integrity of the free world's economy...