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...almost 15 years as one of TIME'S top correspondents, Jim Bell has suffered just about every vicissitude of the reporter's trade, including near mobbing at the hands of an Iranian mob that mistook him for Winston Churchill. But the charge that he seeks to disturb Philippine-U.S. relations is perhaps the oddest ever directed at him. Few Americans have more affection and respect for the Filipino people. Kansas-born Jim Bell spent the formative years of his youth in northern Luzon, returned to the Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Montgomery, where famed Negro Minister Martin Luther King Jr. (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) had announced that Negroes would soon present the board of education with a school integration plan, the city commission 1) accused "certain Negroes" of "attempting to disturb the operation of the public schools," 2) pledged "full assistance" to the board of education in resisting school integration, and 3) called for a grand jury investigation of King's integration movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Deliberate Speed | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Insiders predict that the elements will not respect today's impassioned bout between the traditional rivals. It is said that clouds will overshadow the playing fields and temperatures will settle in the chilly 40's. Light rain or snow may well disturb the stolid comfort of the cheering masses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEATHER | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...large quantities of intoxicating beverages available to the masses is quite as obvious as the inadvisability of serving firewater to Indians. Uncouth and boorish fellows are partially restrained by the high prices set by the international liquor cartel and the tax policy of the Federal government. Anything done to disturb this delicate balance would unleash nightmares of drunkeness and debauchery such as are seldom seen, even in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Juice | 10/30/1958 | See Source »

...police will be here in a few minutes." Tipped off in time's nick, Mark Clark and his men ducked desperately into the wine cellar. Murphy, an aide and a French officer remained upstairs, tipsily greeted the cops, clanked bottles, sang noisily, urged the French police not to disturb the young ladies supposedly in an upstairs room. With Gallic gallantry, the cops searched routinely, left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Five-Star Diplomat | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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