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...Tunisians, offended by the "bellicose tone" of the note, refused to accept it. Next day the Tunisian government declared: "It is inexact that the Algerian elements withdrew into Tunisia with French prisoners." (Best guess as to the truth: the four Frenchmen were whisked into Tunisia for a day or so, then shipped back to a rebel base in Algeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Pride & Practicality | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...being his wife. Every morning, when they were at their favorite country house, the Gladstones walked uphill one mile to church, William throwing sticks for the dog, Catherine reading the morning mail and dropping most of it on the road. William was exact and businesslike. Catherine was inexact and totally haphazard. Visitors were often startled to find her wandering about on the way to her bath draped in nothing but a large towel. She conducted her charitable works with disarming inefficiency and brilliant success. One convalescent home received from her the gifts of a packet of seeds, a canary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Last Man | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...your Congressman," suggested the Daily News of Chicago. In their vastly differing fashions, two Republican newspapers illustrated their Republican publishers' dissatisfaction with the Republican President of the U.S. Beyond that the similarity stopped. Union Leader Publisher William Loeb is a splenetic individualist for whom the description reactionary seems inexact. Daily News Publisher-Editor John S. Knight is a man of calmer mien whose estrangement from President Eisenhower is more restrained and at the same time more significant. For a report on two noteworthy journalists, see PRESS, Thunder on the Right and "That Stinking Hypocrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...television station, through an inexact method, has determined that over 10,000 persons view each of Boring's lectures...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Lowell Lecturers Evaluate Education on Television | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...Behind Forster, by invitation instead of subpoena, came the New York World Telegram and Sun's Frederick Woltman and American Legionnaire James F. O'Neil to deny they were clearance men. Most breathless witness of the four-day hearing was Vincent Hartnett, 40, author of the unofficial, inexact, who's who of subversion, Red Channels. Hartnett described himself as a "talent consultant," denied Cogley's charge that he was "frankly in the business of exposing people with 'front records' and then, later, of 'clearing' them." But Hartnett admitted that he charged moderate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: A Matter of Reporting | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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