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STEEL NEGOTIATIONS are entering the critical stage, but neither union nor management thinks there will be a strike when the contract expires this week. Though Steelworkers' Boss David McDonald has rejected the industry's offer of about a 10?-an-hour wage boost as an "insult," few tempers are ruffled, and the industry is expected to make a satisfactory offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...authors of Family Portrait call themselves Christians, they never should have written the play in the first place, as it is an insult to Catholicism. By complaining, Catholics likewise insulted the convictions of their brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Soviet Union any more than we want ideological ties with the U.S.," said one official. Nor was any Yugoslav pleased by Khrushchev's transparent ruse of making Beria the scapegoat. Said a Tito official: "You can't treat history like a detective story. It's an insult to the Yugoslav people to think they would swallow this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Come Back, Little Tito | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Like Louis Armstrong. The facts are somewhat different. The New York City medical examiner's record shows that he died of acute and chronic alcoholism, complicated by pneumonia. An attending physician called it "alcoholic insult to the brain." When Thomas arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Legend of Dylan Thomas | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not inaccurately: "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval . . ." In the poems that will remain long after the last alcoholic insult to that skin he loathed, there are many victories for the angelic of the three Dylan Thomases: Do not go gentle into that good night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Legend of Dylan Thomas | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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