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Mohammed Ali developed his unabashed crush on America while serving as his country's ambassador (1952-53). He picked up U.S. slang, went often to watch the Washington Senators, took to bowling with his embassy staff. He drove around most of the 48 states with his pretty wife and two teen-age sons, collecting American gadgets, idiom and ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Friend from the East | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Conferred with Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on ways to use the new anti-subversive legislation to crush the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Word to the Wives | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Troubles crush me to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINESE POETRY SAMPLER: TOWN LIFE | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...toughest cop, José Bernabé Linares, 51. As most Guatemalans know, when Linares last ran the secret police under the late Dictator Jorge Ubico his men submerged political enemies in electric-shock baths and perfected a head-shrinking steel skull cap to pry loose secrets and crush improper political thoughts. Whatever else Linares' appointment meant, it suggested that Castillo Armas' latest command decision was not to toy with the enemy forces but to erase them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Command Decisions | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...Songgram, is no Nehru neutralist: he is Southeast Asia's most stoutly anti-Communist leader. Only last month the U.S. agreed to help build up Thailand's army from 65,000 to 100,000. In its drive for the "unification" of Asia, Red China would have to crush-or undermine-Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Next for Conquest | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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