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Thus, only Florida and California hold a chance for an upset-and they, not much. Florida's popular Governor LeRoy Collins leans toward Stevenson, and the state's anti-Collins faction is led by ex-Governor Fuller Warren, a hater of Estes Kefauver from the days of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Barometric Reading | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

Ever since his return last month from a visit to the Soviet Union, Pearson has been calling for "a searching reexamination" of NATO policy. Soviet Leaders Khrushchev and Bulganin apparently convinced him of the Russians' determination never to allow the unification of Germany as long as West Germany stays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Nehru in a Hamburg | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

The Big Knife, from first frame to last, arches with tension like a drawn bow. The Odets script, adapted for the screen by James Poe, has been beautifully grained and shaped by two fine craftsmen, and it takes every ounce of strain that Producer-Director Robert Aldrich leans against it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

The Pope, a hot-rodder might say, has a heavy foot. When he drives from Rome to Castel Gandolfo, 79-year-old Pius XII usually leans forward in his Cadillac, stop watch in hand, ready to complain to the chauffeur if the 17.4-mile trip takes 19 instead of 18...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Speed | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

After a dinner break, Ed comes back before air time to warm up the new theater audience. Again he leans into a gale of applause. "How are you all?" he asks. "How many are here from out of town?" He recoils from the forest of hands, crying: "Wow! New Yorkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big As All Outdoors | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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