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Most British newsmen agree that the royal family, now almost openly hostile to the press, is at least partly to blame. Royal public relations are handled through a Press Secretariat whose tight-lipped refusal to discuss even a Balmoral barbecue forces newsmen to patch up stories from gossip, invention and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Cobweb Curtain | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

"Grape-Juice Navy." Since its outset, Welch's has flourished mightily at the expense of winebibbers. Though Thomas Welch at first was willing to write off grape juice as a Christian endeavor, demand from churches and teetotalers soon forced the company into bigger quarters at Westfield, N.Y., the self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Almost Like Wine | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Britain and France reacted last week to Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal with white-lipped anger. The dictator of the Nile had laid hands on Britain's lifeline to the East, and jeopardized Britain's Middle East oil supplies; he was laying a threat to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUEZ: Angry Challenge & Response | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

This was their story: Russian seamen had spotted the frogman, wearing a black diving suit and flippers on his feet, at 7:30 one morning, floating between two Soviet destroyers. He stayed on the surface a minute or two. then dived under. The Russian admiral complained to the Portsmouth naval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Missing Frogman | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

It began as a routine murder trial. Dour Mrs. Charlotte Black, 63, a big, thin-lipped woman with square-lensed spectacles, stood accused in Santa Rosa, Calif, of pumping three bullets into the head of her husband Martin, 67. But hardly had the jury been sworn in when the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Where Are the People? | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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