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Jim Hagerty spent the day indoors at the home of Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama. He met for several hours with Foreign Office aides and at dusk left quietly for the U.S. airbase at Tachikawa, west of Tokyo, catching only a fleeting glimpse of the lantern parade as he departed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ordeal by Mob | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

More recently, Artist Bishop has become increasingly fascinated by the subway. "Why? I wish I knew! But here people are always going or coming. This is not a place to stay; there is always movement." She can give the Union Square station some of the mystery of a cathedral; yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poet in the Square | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

As one of at least four Senate Democrats with serious presidential hopes. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had seemed strangely subdued since the beginning of the 86th Congress, second session. He had neglected to deliver to the Democratic Party conference the personal "state of the union" speech that he usually managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Behind Closed Doors | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Ravenel, cutting across the field diagonally, was the last man with any sort of chance to catch the fleeting Taylor. He ran doggedly, with a look of desperation on his face, and he was too late. The team dazedly lined up for the extra-point attempt. From the battered and...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Anatomy of a Defeat | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

And Boo to You. Every bit Macmillan's match at making politics with peace and prosperity, the Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell coupled pie-in-the-sky welfare promises with reasons for tax reform that came oddly from the lips of a man whose brushes with manual labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Dubious Battle | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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