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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half a million people crammed Manila's spacious bayside park, the Luneta, to hear Nixon and Magsaysay deliver Fourth of July addresses. In a speech carefully tooled to make clear U.S. policy on neutralism, Nixon said that the U.S., which went through an era of isolationism, can understand the feelings of some nations that want to avoid international alliances. But free nations, he said, can find far greater security by banding together. Then he laid down a clear line: "There is [a] brand of neutralism that makes no moral distinction between the Communist world and the free world. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Vice President Abroad | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...week's end the Kentucky Republican State Central Committee got the news that it was hoping to hear. From John Sherman Cooper came a telegram saying that he would give up his job as Ambassador to India after all, and would run for the unexpired (four years) U.S. Senate term of the late Alben Barkley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Re-Enlistment in Kentucky | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own, so it is likelier you will not be partial." Through 13 centuries, Moslem males have enjoyed polygamy and insisted that they have avoided partiality. But the truth is quite otherwise, to hear the 20,000 members of the All-Pakistan Women's Association tell it. "If any man is honest with himself and understands human nature," argued one passionate Pakistani feminist, "he will realize that he cannot treat four wives equally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Polygamy Reviewed | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Broken Date. The first paper to hear about the kidnaping apparently was the New York Times-at 7 p.m., four hours after Peter's abduction. Half an hour later the tip reached Manhattan's tabloid Daily News. Soon the wire services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Higher Duty | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...main difficulty that Watson has, and that several others in the cast share with him, is an inability to conquer Shakespeare's lines and to speak them naturally. The audience in Sanders can always hear Watson and almost always understand him. Through his sincere and intelligent performance, it can accept him as Henry V. But somehow it can never forget that he is up there reciting lines that are not Henry's but Shakespeare's--and often reciting them in a regrettable sing-song voice at that. Some of the other actors are more successful with their words. Thayer David...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Henry V | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

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