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Where Author Boyle does succeed is in her unerring demonstration of how difficult it is for conqueror and conquered to meet at any level below the let's-get-along surface. And she can suggest, rather than tiresomely explain, that history and national character are still tragically more decisive than any common love for the good, the true and the beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victors & Vanquished | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...conqueror of Mount Everest, New Zealand's beekeeping Sir Edmund Hillary, was again planning to get above it all in the high Himalayas. Grubstaked with a tidy $200,000 from Chicago Publisher Bailey Howard (World Book Encyclopedia), Sir Edmund will attempt the most grueling mountaineering feat ever tried-to climb hazardous Mount Makalu (27,790 ft. and the world's fifth highest peak) without benefit of oxygen equipment. To prepare for the endeavor, Hillary and the other climbers plan to winter at 20,000 ft. Along the way Sir Edmund hopes to bump into an Abominable Snowman (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 11, 1960 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

...Mississippi (8-1)-ran up a 37-7 score on Tennessee, conqueror of Louisiana State, as Fullback Charlie Flowers alone smashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...island is a bleak South Atlantic rock ten miles long and seven miles wide. Eight months of the year it rains, three months the sun blazes down, one month it is bearable. Of 600 officers and men of H.M.S. Conqueror, stationed at the island in the early 19th century, more than 100 died in an 18-month period of hepatitis and amoebic dysentery. A rat-infested house on the atherapeutic isle served as prison for the man who had marched vast armies from Moscow to Madrid, and once ruled half the Christian world. Only a few years before, Napoleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Soldier's Last Home | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...seventh year of his Administration, President Eisenhower was winning one of the greatest personal ovations ever given by Europeans. In Great Britain the outpouring was in a large sense a heartwarming welcome to an old, tried friend. In West Germany the turnout was for a onetime conqueror who had become a stout ally, boosted German pride and self-respect, assured U.S. support, guaranteed that Germany's new-found democratic freedom would sot be traded off in big-power parleys. In France this week new tumults awaited Dwight Eisenhower, not only as the liberator of 1944 but as a statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Is What I Want to Do | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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