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Yet Malenkov has at his disposal an apparatus of tyranny beyond anything known in the past. Julius Caesar, who went to the Senate unarmed on the Ides of March, had to deal with-and to a degree respect-a tradition of freedom, almost absent in Russia. Napoleon I, who vainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: What Next? | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Ice from Alaska. Back of double doors in another lab, a circular saw slices paper-thin samples from huge ice crystals chopped from Alaska's Mendenhall glacier. In still other labs, at even colder temperatures (down to -77° F.), other work is getting under way: food preservation, sewage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Artificial Arctic | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

In one year (1949), his curriculum ranged from semi-starvation to marching till his feet blistered, from writing whoppers as a "People's Correspondent" for the New China News Agency, to a minor post with the Ministry of Propaganda - while inwardly he fought to keep Mao Tse-tung and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind Mao's Lines | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

In Clarksburg, W.Va. (pop. 32,000), where the morning Exponent (circ. 15,381) and evening Telegram (circ. 24,729) have been the only dailies in town for 50 years, Publisher Cecil B. Highland, 76, rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Iron Hand | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

As the oldest, richest paper in Washington, the Evening Star (circ. 226,000) is the capital's only real home-town daily. While other Washington dailies vie for national prestige and influence, the Star acts as Washington's devoted housewife, fighting as hard for good garbage disposal in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Old Lady of Washington | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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