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The broad, with good reason, demands triple damages-and wins them from a local court. But Kovacs only leers happily around his cigar, and his lawyers inform her lawyer (Jack Lemmon): "We have the entire appellate structure of the State of Maine before us." Deciding that two can play dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Certainly, Stendahl had no intention of showing Julien exciting this mortal coil to the unconstrained accompaniment of a chorus of screeching voices, dominated by vibrating sopranos who soar higher and higher. Again, Stendahl had no intention of letting the weather conspire with the gods on the day of Julien's...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Red and the Black | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

¶ Only a crash program on a "war footing" can do the trick-a program that slices through Indian love of paper-shuffling solutions and provides a "far-reaching, centralized authority with a clear line of command and execution."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Facing Starvation | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Not Since MacArthur. By this time Castro was charming the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which in January invited him to its convention-luncheon (and noted last week that "the demand for tickets was the greatest since General MacArthur returned from the Far East"). In 15-minute answers, Castro criticized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Other Face | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Because Herter did serve under Dulles and, even as second in command, was little more than a cipher where policy was concerned, his personal attitudes on policy are very much an unknown quantity. Whatever actions he may pursue, however, the lessons of the past several months should be quite clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hats Off | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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