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By crying "wolf" at every roll-call, the United States is weakening the confidence of its allies at the United Nations. After two months of deadlock over the essentially unimportant question of filling a non-permanent Security Council seat, the U.S. is still backing the Philippines against Yugoslavia--the candidate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pyrrhic Victory | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

Although there was a decline in applicants during the days of the McCarthy hearings ("If you had a Harvard degree in Chinese studies you jut couldn't get a job"), Hightower says that in most years there are about the same number of people filling out application forms. About two...

Author: By Bernad M. Gwertzman and John G. Wofford, S | Title: Regional Studies: A War Baby Grows Up | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

There, finished with public ritual for the day, Ike passed a quiet afternoon alone with his family, contemplating a merciful dispensation from his cautious doctors. Just this once, said they, he could fall off the diet wagon (1,800 calories daily), filling up on as much of the Eisenhower'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tony's Thanksgiving | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

In the last year, since her second marriage, Julie's roots in real life are better fed, and the vital shapes of a permanent feeling and experience are filling her child face. She no longer lives so one-sidedly, and is beginning to accept her weaknesses as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Fiery Particle | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

IN their race for the consumer's dollar, U.S. retailers have turned the old trading-stamp gimmick into the hottest sales idea of the postwar decade. By playing on the housewife's weakness for giveaways, supermarkets and department stores have rung up astonishing records at the cash register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADING STAMPS: A Hidden Charge in the Grocery Bill | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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