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Brief summaries of each decade inform the reader of newsworthy events: the Titanic sank and the tango began, nylon appeared in stockings and then disappeared into parachutes; dry ice and penicillin were invented; Sputnik went into orbit...
Some essays amuse and others inform; some are truly important while the value of others is chiefly historical. Some are trite and some just bore. The photographs (by Cecil Beaton and Edward Steichen among many others) and art reproductions in this oversize, handsomely bound volume are superb...
Louis Zemel, for example, has already challenged the ban without leaving his Connecticut home. Zemel, who already has a valid passport, applied to the State Department for permission to travel to Cuba. He cited his reason for going as self edification--a desire to inform himself first-hand of conditions in Cuba. In April, 1962, the State Department summarily rejected the application and subsequently turned down his request for a hearing. Citizen Zemel then sued the government for the right to travel freely to Cuba, naming Secretary Rusk and Attorney General Robert Kennedy as defendants...
...lives of men, organizations and nations. More and more it has become clear that the rule of law is the most viable hope not only for peace in the world but for sensible solution of less-than-global problems. TIME'S chief aim is to interest and inform readers, and thereby bring about a better understanding of the law and enhance its effect as a force for a better life for mankind...
Stand she did, 5 ft. 2 in. tall in her spike heels, and she held her own with considerable composure. What would she do if she were President of the U.S.? one reporter asked. "My first step," she said, "would be really to inform more of the American people about the Communist danger. We should not be lulled into a false sense of security." Did her husband, and not her brother-in-law, really rule South Viet Nam? "It is the President who rules, not my husband or me," she replied. "President Diem is too authoritarian to allow anything else...