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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thenceforth, as they prepared to patch up the Kremlin's quarrel with Tito, these two were thick in intrigue, though in Belgrade Mikoyan appeared to be only a third man. Asked for his picture, he jerked a thumb at B. and K.: "They're the ones to photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Survivor | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Having fled from the U.S. to Mexico, then from Mexico to Czechoslovakia on Paraguayan passports, wealthy Alfred K. Stern, 59, and his wife Martha Dodd Stern, 48, let a Prague press conference know they were in no hurry to return to the U.S. and explain their activities as professional Communist spies, announced that they would soon visit East Germany, Bulgaria, Communist China. Safe (so far) behind the Iron Curtain, the daughter of onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd, once famed for painting the town red at home and abroad, painted a picture of her own country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...made atomic explosions can help scientists explore the center of the earth, 4,000 miles down. This is the hope of Professor K. E. (for Keith Edward) Bullen of Australia's University of Sydney, who told a Toronto meeting of geophysicists last week that he has already used waves from A-and H-bomb explosions to refine his theories about the earth's deep metallic core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Earth Study | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Names: Alfred K. Stern, 59, of Fargo, N. Dak., Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University and Chicago; Martha Dodd Stern, 48, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1933-37) William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXPATRIATES: The Travelers | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Flying saloons are a social problem," Thurmond hotly told an aviation subcommittee. President Rowland K. Quinn of the Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association agreed. But Civil Aeronautics Board Vice Chairman Chan Gurney scoffed that the drys are all wet. CAB has checked 2,000 complaints in the last few years, and not a single one proved that liquor service jeopardized a flight's safety. In most instances where drunkenness was reported, the passenger had done his drinking before coming aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Drys v. Wets | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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