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...Press Officer Lincoln White reported that "unwarranted repression" was being employed in Ciudad Trujillo "against anyone who is felt to be not loyal to the regime." Pointedly, he opened the possibility that U.S. forces, already gathering in the Caribbean, might move in to protect U.S. lives "should this situation erupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: End of the Dictator | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...little man who lives alone on the moon, counting craters, drop-kicking rocks and looking for something to believe in. He tries believing in himself, then in rocks, finally in craters. But all this is inadequate. At last he notices space, and decides to believe in that. Then rockets erupt from Earth. At first George is happy; he will have friends, and be the greatest moon expert in the universe. But inevitably, doubts sneak up. Earthmen will patronize him, and give him their bags to carry. Whipping himself into a meaningless fury, he decides to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Pied Feiffer | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Spilled Beer. The Windhoek riot was the sixth major one to erupt in Union territory this year, and like all the others, it was the direct result of the whites' measures to keep the blacks in their place. A few miles outside Windhoek, the government is completing a $5,000,000 "location" for the capital's 16,000 blacks. Though the austere new houses are quite an improvement over the old tin shanties, they not only cost eleven times as much to rent, for people whose pay ranges from $3 to $10 a month, but are regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Unhappy Mandate | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

What had Democrat Stevenson done to offend? He had aggrieved Democrat McDonald by speaking out forthrightly on the steel strike that had dragged on for 116 days until interrupted by a Taft-Hartley injunction, and that threatens to erupt again when the So-day injunction runs out in late January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Behind the Fog | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Eruptions & Clusters. Around the league this season, the pros are displaying a variety of play that college football cannot match. Canny, veteran quarterbacks such as Philadelphia's Norm Van Brocklin, 33, and Pittsburgh's Bobby Layne, 32, still dominate their teams. With a tricky, lateraling attack, the Chicago Cardinals can erupt for clusters of points. Last year's champion Baltimore Colts can field a covey of stars led by young (26) Johnny Unitas, a onetime reject from the Pittsburgh Steelers who is rated the best quarterback in football, throws touchdown passes from the shelter of the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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