Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before the Balkans became greyed over by Communism, writers of mystery and history made intrigue the chief occupation of the southeast corner of Europe. Even Communism cannot break all,old habits; it merely regularizes the worst ones. Last week Rumanian Communist Premier Chivu Stoica, rising from deserved obscurity, set a bright little intrigue going. He invited five neighbors-Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey-to a conference to form a Balkan nonaggression alliance. Obviously, Communist Premier Stoica is by definition incapable of independent thought. Then...
...prepared ambush along the slum town's dusty main street, the Basuto "Russians" were waiting with jungle knives, needle-sharp iron rods, battle-axes and a few guns. When the Zulus bore down, the Russians tried to corner each one singly. Then, in the horrified words of a local police officer, who witnessed the scene, they would "hack his knee or his Achilles tendon so that he would drop, then slowly, neatly, talking to him all the while and wishing him a pleasant journey to Hell, proceed to pare his head with a knife until he fell dead...
Elsewhere the world of sport was worried by such momentous questions as "How can an ordinary citizen corner a couple of tickets to the World Series?" and "When are the Brooklyn Dodgers going to move?" But in Clearwater, Fla. (pop. 25,500) last week, 25,000 fans had something much more immediate on their minds: they had 22 teams (and as many as 13 games a day) to watch in the softball championship of the world...
...keep it open. But Gordon has plenty of company when he opens up each afternoon. Students browse or simply sit down in one of his easy chairs to read. A somewhat small, pink-cheeked man with a gray line of a moustache, Mr. Cairnie usually sits in the far corner of a well-worn leather couch, skimming a catalogue or perhaps talking to a tutor, a Cambridge poet, or a student he knows well. His books, most of them first editions, stand in wall shelves or lie scattered at random on a large table in the center of the room...
...cranny of public or private life is safe from the curiosity of the U.S. press-except the U.S. press. Publishers treat other publishers as fellow club members whose foibles-and achievements-may be whispered about in a corner of the library but are not to be bruited about in public print. From its window seat in the clubhouse, TIME sees newspapers and newsmen, as well as other magazines, as legitimate, significant and often fascinating subjects for discussion and criticism. Because no other general U.S. publication talks so regularly and so candidly about the press in action, TIME's Press...