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In a matter of hours, Hammarskjold had pledges of troops from Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Tunisia and Ethiopia; the first Ghanaian detachment was in Leopoldville within 24 hours. From Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Turn of the Road | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Everything, however, is not riotous and gay; there are odd little corners where things are pretty chilly-- little interludes which one comes upon in surprise, where there is not even a pretense to comedy. The gynecologist's daughter, a girl of fifteen, cannot understand why a longtime friend suddenly prefers...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: A Lesson in Love | 7/21/1960 | See Source »

Taking Charge. The Los Angeles that Johnson rolled into was shuddering proof that Operation Kennedy had again outrun the wildest guesses of the old pros. From the Kennedy command post on the Biltmore Hotel's eighth floor, the team headed by Jack's brother Bob (the "brash young man," as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Reverberating Issue | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

It is hard to be indifferent to the information that Justice Felix Frankfurter, 77, expects to die without having been to the top of the Washington Monument, that he was in his B.V.D.s when President Roosevelt phoned the news of his impending appointment to the Supreme Court and that, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obiter Dicta | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Orchestrating the demonstrations was Socialist Party Secretary-General Inejiro Asanuma, the burly former union organizer who has been chummy with the Chinese Communists ever since his Peking trip last year. Backed by three loudspeaker trucks and hundreds of followers, he strode up to the U.S. embassy and handed Ambassador Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Anti-Kishi Riots | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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