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...struggling to raise a tiny church, the building fund was oversubscribed by the next day's mail. Once he put an agonized mother on his program to appeal for the return of her kidnaped child. When she got home from the television studio, the baby was on her doorstep, safe and sound. Mexicans thank Paco Malgesto for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Genial Mexican | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...Armed with supreme self-confidence and an initial $350,000 appropriation, Kennedy sent his staff legmen into a dozen cities, headed west himself to tackle Teamster chieftains on their home grounds. One day in the west, he knocked at the door of a labor racketeer, was stopped at the doorstep by a suspicious wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOSTON TERRIER: Bob Kennedy Barks --& Bites | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Some Britons recognize that part of the present difficulty of dealing with Nasser stems from problems created by their bungled attack. At this point, most were happy to leave the problem on Ike's doorstep, and even perhaps ready to grant that Britain currently is in no position to assert its own will in the Middle East. Suffering from the effects at home of the blocked canal and fearing the loss of most of its influence in the area-a defeat underlined last week by the agreement ending the 35-year-old relationship with Jordan and abandonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALLIANCES: Meeting In Bermuda | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...recently developed for the turbine blades of jet engines are capable of withstanding it. So should an alloy-constructed satellite. A returning satellite could not only show the subtle effects of cosmic rays but could also bring back with it pictures of what the earth looks like from the doorstep of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Returning Satellite | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...effect, a tribute to Tito's new importance in that country. A delegation from the Hungarian Communist Party, led by Erno Gero himself, prepared to pay court to Belgrade. A delegation from the Italian party, the most powerful outside the Iron Curtain, was already on Tito's doorstep. Rumania was sending a delegation, and also the French Communist Party, hitherto cool towards the Yugoslavs. Pravda reported that differences between the Yugoslav and Soviet Communist Parties had "considerably lessened" and were "continuing to diminish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: In the Woods at Yalta | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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