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When Nikita Khrushchev put a slow fuse on his threat to turn Berlin over to the East German authorities, he did not act capriciously. In both preceding crises of 1958, the United States reacted more impetuously than the Soviets had calculated; the six-month period of grace on the Berlin issue was designed to provide time enough so that doubt and dissension could germinate among the Western allies...
Like a stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of its author, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo...
...Emoto's bride and the 25 other passengers and crew of the DC-3, Emoto's departure was not quite as spectacular as he intended. In his canvas bag were found two sticks of dynamite. In the plane's toilet were 25 more sticks, a burned fuse and a percussion cap that had failed to explode...
...incorporated, and we're the eleventh largest city in the state of Washington," shouted the master of ceremonies one evening last week, as 2,000 residents of Richland (pop. 23,000) gathered to watch a simulated atomic explosion and a bonfire lit by an atomic fuse. Cause for celebration: after 15 years as a company town servicing the big-secret plutonium works known as the Hanford Atomic Project, Richland had voted itself out from under the paternalistic wings of the Atomic Energy Commission and General Electric, prime AEC contractor. And the vote had carried in the face of upcoming...
...Amateurs. The fuse to last week's explosion had been smoldering since 1954, when West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon (Hunt Foods, Ohio Match Co.) began to acquire a controlling 35% interest in the widely held McCall stock. He reorganized the board in his favor, and last year startled Madison Avenue by bringing in Langlie as president. Puritanical, parsimonious Lawyer Langlie was a three-time (1941-45, 1949-57) Republican governor of Washington (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956), but a publishing amateur...