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...terribly embarrassing. "The Russians," said Desmond Hackett of the Daily Express, "are not easily amused. But before battered Arsenal had crawled out of the floodlit stadium tonight, 75,000 Russians were laughing like kids at a pantomime . . . The crowd were tossing peaked caps and laughing fit to bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Moscow Whistle | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...sent for a young local plant pathologist named Cestmir Novacek and ordered him to liquidate the nasty, crawling little capitalists. For five years everything went fine, and the "invasion" took little toll of Horazdovice's potatoes. This year, however, the potato harvest in the Pilsen area was a bust. The fact that it could all be blamed on the weather did not satisfy the Communists. Again the commissars sent for Pathologist Novacek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Beetles & Banishment | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...feels guilt in departing from his own principles; the other-directed, living in hope of the approval of his peers, is seldom free of a diffuse anxiety lest this approval be withheld. Riesman notes that from the walls of the inner-directed school, the ruins of Pompeii and the bust of Caesar often looked down-reminders of the past from which one learned the moral principles of history, part of the gyroscopic mechanism. These pressed stern standards upon a child -and many children were crushed. But the school for the other-directed has its own mural pressures. "The walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Freedom--New Style | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Television audiences for the first time got to watch the finals in the annual Miss America contest, run off at Atlantic City. The winner: San Francisco's 19-year-old Lee Ann Meriwether (5 ft. 8½ in., 124 Ibs.; bust 34½, waist 22, hips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

This unwarranted attack upon the bust of the American female both by foreigners without and traitors within must not go unimpeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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