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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laotian solidarity, he also practiced it. He had 25 wives (though only the Queen was called wife), and the number of his children was reckoned from the official 38 to a less official 100. Once, Novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote about his royal neighbor on the Riviera: "Whenever the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Long Reign | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

The Finns, who defended their independence through two gallant, losing wars with Russia, have also found it hard to stand up against their giant neighbor in time of peace. Last year their President Urho Kekkonen shocked many Finns by letting the Russians veto the composition of a Finnish Cabinet. Following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: The Wary Neighbor | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Last week a grinning Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was in Helsinki for the signing of the new fiveyear, $1.5 billion trade pact. Terms: Finland will continue to send icebreakers and papermaking machinery to Russia, in return for Soviet wheat, coal, oil, autos. The Soviet-bloc share of Finnish trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: The Wary Neighbor | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

To Work. Castro's voice had hardly died out in the night when the nation rushed to do his bidding. From the Cabinet came a flurry of decrees setting up the military courts, suspending habeas corpus, ending the right of prisoners to appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality. The Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: To the Wall! | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

U.S. policy since Fidel Castro's rise to power has been a high-minded try at tolerance of the inevitable anti-U.S. excesses of a sweeping revolution; the policy was exemplified in the appointment of friendly, low-keyed Career Ambassador Philip Bonsai. But a fortnight ago Castro falsely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The U.S. & Castro | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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