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"Humanity faces a tragic future if the war threat is not brought under control. Any government that summarily rejects these disarmament proposals would accept a frightful responsibility before all the world."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Hard Line (Contd.) | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

What could be done? A yogi sent word that he could clear matters up in 30 minutes: "Ghosts scatter at my very presence," said he. "I can make oranges fly in the air." But the school decided on a new tack, at long last called in a physician. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Malay Nightmare | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

There is opportunity for wild humor in the outcroppings Humphrey must negotiate in his scramble to the top-the office sweater girl; an addled old clerk who has sandbagged his office with 67 filing cabinets full of senselessly duplicated detritus dating from 1939: and a villainous colonel whose spit-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nit-Picnic | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

The work begins when Mrs. Campbell was at the peak of her career and Shaw a merely notorious pamphleteer. Act I contains the story of Shaw's plea to Mrs. Campbell to take the role of Liza in Pygmalion, her frightful automobile accident (which she thought had ended her career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Shaw Premiere | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

One of France's most distinguished soldiers, General Jacques Marie Roch Paris de Bollardière, paratroop veteran of Indo-China, last week asked to be relieved of command of the Algerian sector east of the Atlas Mountains. His reason he made plain in a letter to L'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mobs & Morals | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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