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Most of New York went about its business with only a passing interest in the extra-thick traffic jams, but the fringes were crackling with antagonistic citizens and fanatic European émigrés who unfurled their banners and epithets with grim satisfaction whenever they got the chance. To keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battleground | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

At his hilltop palace 15 minutes away, Jordan's young King Hussein got the whispered word by telephone. The doughty little king, at 24, is a veteran survivor of assassination plots, attempted coups, and a four-year feud with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. At 13, lie was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Death in Amman | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

On the Way. The Shah finally got his country back in 1946 and boldly sent troops into Azerbaijan, Iran's northernmost province, to throw out a puppet regime the Soviets had left behind. Three years later, he came within a hair's breadth of death at the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Reformer in Shako | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Five-Minute Peace. Washington officials, who had expected a ranting fanatic, found instead a poised, almost impassive, man who could respond politely and correctly in slightly accented French to Herter's welcoming speech without recourse to notes or text, who faced a roomful of U.S. correspondents and fielded their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: Where's the War? | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

That bedeviled man, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi, did not even get the privilege of quitting office gracefully last week. Victimized politically for putting through the Japanese-U.S. Security Treaty by the fanatics of the left, he suffered a final personal indignity at the hands of a fanatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Last Blow | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

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