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The piecemeal attempts to deal with these problems which characterized Arthur Goldberg's brief career as Secretary of Labor were worse than useless; they distracted attention from the true dimensions of the problem. And while the Man-Power Retraining Program passed by the last Congress constitutes a modest beginning, one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Newspaper Strike | 1/23/1963 | See Source »

Three people are in the room, two women and a man. The man (Morgan Sterne) is a coward who betrayed his revolutionary comrades to torture and death. One of the women (Viveca Lindfors) is a lesbian who seduced a virtuous young housewife and slowly, out of sheer unnatural viciousness, destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hell Is a Hotel | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

When Columnist Drew Pearson interviewed Marshal Tito recently at the island retreat of Brijoni, he was surprised to discover that the dictator's aides were more interested in getting details about the death of Marilyn Monroe than in discussing nuclear testing or Berlin. Last week Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Revisionists Prefer Blondes | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

Brezhnev and Tito ignored the outbursts. Looking remarkably robust for his age (70) and his long career in the Communist jungle, Tito made plans to repay the courtesy call with his own trip to Moscow within six months. Probable companion on the return visit: Tito's wife, a stunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Revisionists Prefer Blondes | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

Nizer has filled his book with courtroom strategy and insight. In a divorce case, a wife's plea for low alimony and a large property settlement generally means that she intends to remarry as soon as she gets her loot. Conversely, a demand for high alimony suggests that she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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