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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pledged to seek new ways of solving the "abnormal" situation of isolated West Berlin. At the other extreme stands De Gaulle, who sees no reason to want any change in the German situation, opposes reunification of East and West Germany on the ground that it might mean the end of West Germany's integration into the Western European community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Debate over Dates | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...France's school for diplomats, the new King has never been the easygoing sort his father was. Something of a Puritan who lives a simple life with his one wife, he is a fervent antiCommunist, and is regarded as incorruptible. When the government recently announced that before the end of the year there would be a new constitution that would turn many of the powers of the National Assembly over to the King, everyone understood that power will go to a man who means to be a King in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Long Reign | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Castro's puppet President, Osvaldo Dorticos, spoke frankly of "deliberate and concerted efforts to replace traditional friendship with distrust and hostility." The U.S. rejected "with indignation" any hint that the Government winked at clandestine flights to Cuba from 200-odd Florida airfields. And at week's end, the U.S. cracked down hard on the flights, while adding the friendly gesture of sending planes and ships to look for Cuban Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who dis appeared in a light plane over central Cuba. The note also "categorically rejected" a favorite Castro myth - that the U.S. press is "engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The U.S. & Castro | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...hope to be here next year," said Pope John XXIII, 78 this month, as he celebrated the end of his first year on the throne. "But if the Lord should call me, I am ready." The Pope greeted 162 villagers from Sotto il Monte, his birthplace in northern Italy, told the 15,000 gathered in St. Peter's that the year had "passed like a day," then prayed for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...house rippling with laughter. When the young page Cherubino pours out his adolescent romantic yearnings in Act I, he does so in Ritchard's version while holding on to a pair of women's drawers draped across a clothesline full of underthings. At the act's end, when Figaro mockingly congratulates Cherubino on his future military career, he punctuates the aria Non più andrai with a solid boot to the rump. But Ritchard's worst sin, according to the purist critics, was turning the Countess from a person of "breeding and dignity" into a delightfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fight over Figaro | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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