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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silly as it was, the great surrender flap caused thoughtful comment from at least one quarter. Wrote Columnist David Lawrence: "The key words [of the Rand study] are 'surrender politically,' and that's what many journalists and spokesmen for appeasement are unwittingly advocating nearly every day. They have ridiculed 'massive retaliation' . . . They have insisted that America must take the 'first blow' in a nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Four-Day Egg | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...much to resent, but still they would not cheer. Lebanon's usually pro-Western Al-Jarida complained that Ike had not addressed himself to "the basic problem of the Arab world"-Israel. The most hopeful thing a New York Times correspondent could find to say about Egyptian press comment was that it was "only slightly abusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Value of Vagueness | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...hours of preparation-which must end in laughter or failure-Paar is probably doing his hardest work. At noon on a recent, typical pre-show day, Jack was prowling his barn-red twelve-room house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. His breakfast had been spoiled by an unfriendly newspaper comment on the previous night's show; now he was worried about the coming performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...with trunkloads of painstakingly gathered film, much of it unique. And twelve times Disney has taken the film and glued onto it a cloying narration and a sound track that often seems loudly superfluous. Even as the lemmings plunge crazily toward the ocean-a sight that needs no gratuitous comment of any sort-the orchestra swells to bursting and the voice of the narrator booms their gooey epitaph: "And so is acted out the legend of mass suicide . . . It is not given to man to understand all of nature's mysteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...said he would go on to Europe, study public affairs at Paris' Institute of Political Studies. Said Wendy Marshall: "At the moment, Peter is really a professional schoolboy. However, I am planning a trip to Europe next March, and what happens while I am overseas is not for comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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