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As a projection, the future is now often seen in apocalyptic terms. Fate poses as "the bomb," and the cult of the mushroom cloud is, in many cases, a grand projection of private fears having nothing to do with atomic war. In contemplation of world ruin, a would-be tragic...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: In Praise of Academic Abandon | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

Intriguing Idea. In Washington, the Russian visitors watched the U.S. Senate convene, spent an hour talking to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, and 15 minutes with President Kennedy. But none of this impressed Pravda's Maevsky so much as a chat with Presidential Economic Adviser Walter Heller, who told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Innocents Abroad | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

In stately procession, the delegates rolled up to the Palais des Nations in Qeneva-the U.S.'s Dean Rusk in a black Homburg, India's smartly tailored V. K. Krishna Menon sweeping an arrogant eye over the press gallery, Russia's grinning Andrei Gromyko, China's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geneva: Two to One | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Peace of a sort settled upon the Asian kingdom of Laos. An uneasy cessation of actual shooting, it stirred in Washington an audible whew of relief. But it was relief without joy-for the cease-fire in Laos came as a cold war defeat for the U.S. A 14-nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War: A Price Too High | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Fred Kleiboeker's corn-and-soybean farm, 6½ miles northwest of Centralia, looks much like the rest of the crop land in Illinois' flat, picture-book farm belt. But it is now acreage with a difference. Last week, after analysis of the 1960 census results, Commerce Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Population: Westward Ho | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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