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...Soviet Union's resumption of nuclear testing has revealed, all too clearly, the following fact. A gangster (the Soviet Union) does not cease his bloody activities because society frowns upon his activities - the extension and preservation of Communism through deceit, treachery, and barbarity when necessary. Since society employs armed policemen to protect itself from gangsters, by the same token a nation should use minimal adequate force to protect itself from international gangsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1961 | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

...ways, and there are other blazes elsewhere. At least two more Cincinnati locals are thinking about disaffiliation. Happily surveying the ranks of discontent, A.F.L.-C.I.O. scouts estimate that there are at least 25 more locals around the country just itching for the chance to get out from under the gangster-ridden union world of James Riddle Hoffa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Fires in the Backyard | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

Around the clock and throughout the year, every 16 hours the Japanese movie industry completes a feature. Full of samurai swords, gangster gunfire, even Japanese cowboys short in the saddle, the movies are fed to the most ravenous audiences in the world. Some theaters actually book quadruple features. Although the country has been in a cecilbedelirium ever since it first saw The Ten Commandments, about the only type of film not made in Japan has been the religious epic. On location near Kyoto, the Daiei Motion Picture Co. is taking care of that-with The Life of Buddha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: The Zen Commandments | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...often, you depict every run-of-the-mill, nondescript, Caspar Milquetoast, blend-into-the-woodwork type gangster as looking like a bank clerk. And now Eichmann! Come, come, TIME. Where are you doing your banking? Surely not out here in the West, where I am married to a banker who looks like a gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 1961 | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker are the only bright notes in a gangster-gimmicked reminder of just how good Guys and Dolls really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 17, 1961 | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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