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By turning on alternate currents of bellicosity and reasonableness, Khrushchev had tried to play Western tensions over Berlin as he would (in the current Washington phrase) "with a yo-yo." But his freehanded game was clearly hampered by East Germany's troubles. The U.S. was determined to control its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold War: Toward Talks | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

Kicks & Kickbacks. Glimco had been particularly freehanded with Local 777's treasury. He authorized the purchase of no less than $11,973 worth of flowers and charged them to the local. He spent $4,289 on a party for Jimmy Hoffa. He and his secretary took a $1,045...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: This Is a Trend | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

Victory is within his grasp. Will he permit it to be snatched from him by the villain (Herbert Lorn), a sneery guide from the neighboring valley who sneaks off in the predawn darkness to beat him to the top? The last reel of the picture finds him chasing the wretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Hefty Barmaid. Freed last spring for good behavior, Hume took bold advantage of the fact that he could not be tried again for the same crime. To the tabloid Sunday Pictorial he brazenly sold for about $10,000 his account of how he murdered Setty (TIME, June 16). He became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hunted Man | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Freehanded. In Chattanooga, Convicted Forger Hubert C. Warren, 28, was discharged from the Hamilton County workhouse after he handed guards a jail release that he had forged.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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