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...slight frame, Ilona Toth appeared in Budapest's gloomy municipal court with ten other Freedom Fighters chosen from the thousands in Kadar's jails. They were picked for trial, the middle-aged woman judge indicated, because they were "intellectuals, students and ne'er-do-wells" who had acted "merely out of a spirit of adventure or because of lack of information." If by this choice Kadar had hoped to discredit the Freedom Fighters as a whole, he had miscalculated: Medical Student Toth's case for freedom was as powerful as it was poignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Case Against Freedom | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...homme struggles valiantly, and on the whole with success. As for the sailor, George Wallace, he looks as muscular and manly as a musical comedy leading man has to; and he also has a good singing voice, a fact which he demonstrates in Merrill's best song, Look At 'Er...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: New Girl in Town | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

...Name It. In Graham, N.C., History Teacher Wilton Hawkins apologized under pressure to the city council for including in a final examination a multiple choice question: "The Graham City Council is largely composed of A) Idiots; B) Ignoramuses; C) Ne'er-Do-Wells; D) You call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...fought for glimpses of Japanese cameras, electronic fishing gear and TV. Television, in fact, was the hit of the show. The Japanese had brought a small transmitting outfit and set up a receiver in Mao's office, in the exhibition hall and in some 20 oth er vantage spots around town. At one point, the TV network broadcast a film of Mao's visit to the exhibition. When Chair man Mao saw himself waving to people as he was leaving the hall, his round, bland face split like a sliced watermelon with a wide smile; he clapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Old Yen | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Randy (squirming): Can you put it any better? Er . . .a soldier . . . er...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $128 Bust | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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