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Bouncing the bill back to the Hill half an hour after it arrived, the President called House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana to insist upon another last-ditch stand such as Halleck staged to sustain the previous veto by one vote (TIME, Sept. 14). That upset victory had won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Overriding Smell of Pork | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Among the odd cults that nourish in the French Congo, perhaps the oddest of all is the Matswa cult, which takes its name from a Congolese who served as a French army sergeant in World War I. Preaching passive resistance against the French, Andre Matswa persuaded his followers not to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO REPUBLIC: Death at the Wall | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

The Blue Pencil. Almost from the start, the Soviet censors reneged on the government's promise to pass all copy unscathed. Glavlit, the Soviet censorship agency, combed some of the outgoing cables carefully, eliminating, among other things, mention of its own blue-pencil activity. The American Broadcasting Co. was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Roughing It in Russia | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Ten Seconds to Hell is rarely caught with its suspense down. There are the sepulchral groans and squeaks as the rusty nose-bolts on the bombs begin to turn. There are the sweat-beaded pauses when the demolition man draws the cables taut as delicately as if he were landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

To punish Milazzo, and to regain dominance of Catholic Sicily, the Christian Democrats appealed to the Vatican. Armed with an ad hoc papal decree forbidding Catholics to vote for any candidate allied with the Communists, Sicily's imperious Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini sent Catholic Action groups from house to house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Third Choice | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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