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...Fortnight ago, 32 employees of the talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: CBC in a Jam | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...golf, the varsity beat Boston College, M.I.T., and Williams in a threeway match held at Oakley Country Club in Watertown Saturday. The varsity edged B.C. 4 to 3, as Captain Frank Dodge defeated Ted Huff one-up on the 19th hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Skiers Beat Dartmouth; Golfers Triumph | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...illness. But with Kim gone, the situation showed no signs of calming down. When her part was offered to Understudy Malone on a permanent basis, Nancy Malone asked for $500 a week. (Kim Stanley had got at least $1,500.) Producer Whitehead offered her $450; Nancy quit in a huff (the part will be taken by Actress Cloris Leachman). "It's like having the moneychangers in the temple," Nancy bitterly told a friend-over a cup of coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: One Touch of . . . | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...allows Communist Viet Minh guerrillas to cross its territory to stage raids in South Viet Nam; in retaliation, South Vietnamese troops picked up a border marker, moved it 1½ miles into Cambodia and threw a minefield around it. Thailand has given haven to opponents of Sihanouk. In a huff at these acts by his anti-Communist neighbors, Sihanouk accepted increased economic aid from Red China, broke diplomatic relations with Thailand. In recent months the volatile Prince has grown more nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Sour Note | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Peace on Cyprus had one important side effect. Sixty Greek officers and men who last June had walked out in a huff from NATO's Southeastern European Command headquarters at Izmir, Turkey, quietly returned to their job. Friendly allies once again in the Eastern Mediterranean, the British, Turks and Greeks scheduled joint naval maneuvers in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Hero's Return | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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