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...Kosa seemed a model young Communist. He lived and worked in Ujpest, an industrial suburb of Budapest, was a member of the workers' committee and a party leader. But when the Russian tank columns moved to crush the revolution of October 1956, Pal Kosa opposed them. He led a crowd of fellow workers in overthrowing the Soviet war memorial in Ujpest, helped keep resistance going in his suburb long after the fighting had ceased throughout most of the country. On Nov. 12, Pal Kosa was captured by the vengeful puppet government of Janos Kadar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Against the Wall | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Kassem brusquely cut him off. "Be quiet!" he snapped. "Every paper claims to be the only sincere one. Sons of the people are all one force. I follow the whole, not a certain party. Any party is a minority, and let there be no mistake: the people can crush the anarchists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: These Savage Acts | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...rebellion against the Soviet Union -was none other than Wladyslaw Gomulka, an out-of-favor Communist whom Stalin had once arrested for refusing to castigate Tito. "Traitor!" Khrushchev bellowed at him during that all-night 1956 session in the Belvedere Palace. "If you don't obey, we will crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Confidence Man | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...damned liar," exploded the Chief Justice of the United States at a Washington cocktail party last week. Heads turned amid the crush of Justices, Senators, Congressmen and newsmen to see Earl Warren face off against Earl Mazo, 40, New York Herald Tribune reporter and author of the notably fair-minded new biography, Richard Nixon, a Political and Personal Portrait (see BOOKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: California Clash | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...marathon TV interviews (five hours, from 10:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.), Castro resumed his attacks on the U.S., saying, "International interests want to crush the Cuban revolution, which is an example for the rest of Latin America." He waved the specter of class war, warning that he has summoned half a million peasants "with their machetes" to Havana on July 26. The picture that came off the screen was that of a fanatic heading for a leftist dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Toward Dictatorship | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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