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...Free. One morning around Easter 1955, Florence tapped and got no answer from Paul. Later that year, for no given reason, she was released from prison. Months afterward she received a secretly relayed message from Paul. He had been taken to another prison and had no hope of freedom. But then, as he had reached "the limit of human endurance," the incredible happened. Russia's Bulganin and Khrushchev, planning to visit Britain and not wishing to be embarrassed by British labor leaders' demands for the release of a long list of jailed Social Democrats, ordered Ignotus, among others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: After the Cinema | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

During the early weeks of the $71.8 billion budget brawl, Lyndon kept himself uncommitted, heckled the Republicans from the sidelines while awaiting answers to a budget questionnaire that he had mailed out to 39,000 Texans. The replies, plus an Easter visit home, convinced him that economy sentiment was running strong. He saw a big political issue in the making, and he set his three-point party line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sharp Touch with a Wedge | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

What, asks the Century rhetorically, is wrong with Billy? "Here is something hugely religious, and everybody is religious like everybody else, so why not go to the Garden? They all read Norman Vincent Peale and they all watch Bishop Sheen and they all go to the big Easter showing of The Ten Commandments, so why not go to the Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Billy in New York | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...selling $18,000 to $30,000 houses this year. A Seattle builder is busy with a 75-house development ($25,000 and up), is selling to families who lived in $15,000 homes a few years ago. One Dallas builder has made 72 sales of $22,000 houses since Easter. In Atlanta, where overall building is down 30%, builders of $25,000 houses are selling all they can build; some report a waiting list of customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Those Better Houses | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Holiday Edge. In Jacksonville, Joe Tanner, out under bond on a charge of shooting a man on Christmas Day, was jailed again, charged with stabbing another man on Easter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

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