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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explanation that came from high-powered RFE Director Erik Hazelhoff, 42, onetime NBC executive, was really bizarre, even to those who work in an atmosphere of exposing intrigues. By the sudden closing, Hazelhoff announced dramatically, RFE had averted "an attempted mass poisoning"; a double agent in RFE's employ had tipped off authorities that he had been assigned by a Communist diplomat to replace the normal cafeteria salt shakers with others that he was told contained "a mild laxative." When contents of two suspect shakers were analyzed, their salt was found mixed with 2.36% by weight of atropine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: In the Salt | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...week's end Radio Free Europe decided it was safe to reopen the cafeteria, and on the RFE bulletin board, Director Hazelhoff described the affair of the poisoned salt shakers as a "dramatic illustration of deep Communist concern about the effectiveness of our broadcasts," which would hopefully cause all in this "front line" to "redouble our efforts in a mission proved of crucial importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: In the Salt | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...explanation, Major General Lloyd P. Hopwood, director of Personnel Procurement and Training, said that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program is "the least flexible of our officer-procurement programs," since changes in Air Force strength in recent years have "been established in hours or at most a few months." To change the role of college programs to produce the bulk of the Air Force's career officers will require many corrections by all, said Hopwood. Then he proceeded to hit some Air Force beefs. Last year 15% of the Air Force's college R.O.T.C. units turned out only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Needed: A New Mission | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...that "the only good deal is one that shows everyone a profit," Cambridge-educated Wolf Mankowitz has made a good deal indeed for the British theater. He has brought it a bubbling British enthusiasm that pays off at the box office whether his shows are being polished in Director Joan Littlewood's East End Theater Royal or bargaining for big money on the other side of town. Even in the West End his productions are usually low budget. "Good characters don't cost you any more to create," he argues. "Good lines don't cost any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: More English Than the English? | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman mixes his murky symbols into a witch's brew well worth sampling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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