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The vote was a setback for Kashani, but the power of the aged little fanatic has always been in the streets, rather than the Majlis. And though Mossadegh had won one more parliamentary triumph, his power is steadily being undermined by 1) the unpopularity of his attempt to oust the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Steady Infiltration | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

The boys believe they may be getting into the "fanatic fan" class. Says Jethro: "After we appeared on a hillbilly show at Symphony Hall in Boston-that's the best hillbilly town ever-the young gals outside like to tore us apart.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Parodies Pay | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

McCarthyism has a parallel in modern history, and it is neither Hitlerism nor Huey Longism. In the late '20s and early '30s, Prohibition monopolized public discussion in the U.S. and luridly colored the European view of American life. An overwhelming majority of the U.S. people came to recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McCARTHYISM: MYTH & MENACE | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Biak was no giveaway. Intelligence had placed the island's defenders at 2,000; there were actually 10,000, including crack veterans of the China campaign. Ably led and zealously fanatic, they fought for a month before they were subdued. In the meantime, MacArthur pushed on to Noem-foor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Roads to Tokyo | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

His selfless imitation of Christ could not fail to impress the Tuareg. They called him the Great White Marabout (holy man), and kissed the hem of his robe. But by the middle of World War I, a group of fanatic Moslems, incited by the Turks, had marked him for capture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For God & France | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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