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After her losing joust with Kennedy. Reporter McClendon fell unnaturally silent-inspired, perhaps, by word from State Department Legal Adviser Abram Chayes, who said that her statement to Kennedy was "defamatory on its face." Besides, what was the point in more talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sarah Silenced | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 27, 1961 | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 20, 1961 | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young poolshark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust of the cues on the Cloth of Green. Director Robert Rossen makes an uncouth theme breathe with a smoky poetry and sometimes ring true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 13, 1961 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Garbage. But the inexhaustible Khrushchev never ceased to bounce and joust. Night after night he partied with everyone from the Afghans to the Uruguayans, held high-pressure sales sessions with neutralist leaders, slipped into impromptu press conferences at the drop of a question. More and more, his responses rasped with irritation-as if he could not stand the quiet. To a reporter who asked why he felt that the U.N. had to have a threeman executive to achieve U.N. impartiality, he replied: "It is said God alone was able to combine three persons in one. But then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Sputnik Nik | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

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