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Bilious blue bloods and asthmatic aristocrats have sipped the strong waters of La Bourboule for centuries. The heady brew burbling up from radioactive springs around the French spa is spiced with arsenic and bicarbonate of soda and, so the Bourbouliens say, is good for anemia, rheumatism, diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Waters | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

In adapting Melville's 500 pages into a not over-long screenplay, Huston and Ray Bradbury have done a job that is unqualifiedly brilliant. They have followed the plot and the characterizations faithfully, and have even shown a welcome respect for the spoken word--in the sermon by Father Mapple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moby Dick | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

For a self-proclaimed dreamer and devout Buddhist, U Nu turned in a remarkable job as a man of action. Starting off with a shaky combat force of only 12,000 men, his government in eight years of intermittent fighting has succeeded in reducing to dispersed guerrillaism five major rebellious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: The Day of the Tiger | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Man of Distinction. Stopping the intermittent bloodletting on the Gaza strip was Hammarskjold's most dramatic effort (TIME, April 30), but winning peace pledges along Israel's northern and eastern frontiers turned out to be his trickiest assignment. The Syrians, echoed by Lebanon and Jordan, insisted that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Mission Accomplished | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

The main strength of the impressionists, both foreign and domestic, was color-and color has always been a sometime thing. Man never has needed a highly developed color sense in order to get around, though he must see shapes fairly accurately, hence his color impressions tend to be comparatively dim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The American Impressionists | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

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