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Washington speculation had been that Dulles' statement, at a news conference Tuesday, was a hint at a shift in the U.S. line aimed to provoke Mikoyan's interest and a change in the Soviet line...
...political battles had withered into listlessness and lack of imagination compared to his heroic days in 1939 (his first year as Republican leader) when, he boasts, "We had only 169 Republicans in the House, and we beat the New Deal in 18 major battles in a row." Some also hint that his warm friendship with Democratic Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn led Martin to compromise on the Republican position more than necessary...
...Wintertime unemployment is a major problem; so is a wage-price inflation. But the year showed-and Canadians understood, as demonstrated by new highs for the Toronto stock market in 1958-that the U.S. has a strong, increasingly independent neighbor to the north, whose past growth is only a hint of its future promise...
...Scala and Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, litigious Maria tossed a damage suit against another offending management: the Rome Opera House, which sacked her a year ago (TIME, Jan. 20, 1958) after she walked out after the first act of Norma pleading a "lowering of the voice." With a hint that a suit of their own was in the wings, the Rome management curtly dismissed the latest Callasuit: "Ridiculous...
...telling such episodes, Biographer Wheeler-Bennett gives little hint that he wrote his history in the shadow of-and partly inside-Buckingham Palace. An acre of Fabergé eggshells beset the path of the royal (and official) biographer, but Wheeler-Bennett has manfully covered the field to give a picture of a king and a king's-eye view of his times. Apart from inside stuff such as bits of George's conversations with F.D.R. at Hyde Park (where the lordly Roosevelt called him "young man"), the book offers a highly explicit picture of the functions and limitations...