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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bring back the hated tyranny; yet it was he who was setting up a one-man dictatorship. Perhaps Khrushchev hoped to avoid a return to the unprofitable nightmare of Stalinist horror. Yet in the deadly Soviet game of power, victory has its own momentum and defeat its own awful logic. The "lose and live" policy, which lasted while the forces of power were in uneasy equilibrium, might not survive now that Khrushchev is in control. The increasing mentions of the "Leningrad Case" (see below) suggested that Malenkov may not be around long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Winner Takes All | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...wing Deputy with a broken beer bottle. Cynics blamed the apathy on the heat which blanketed Paris as well as Bonn, but a more accurate explanation was that everyone knew that the treaties would pass with a comfortable majority. Not even the French National Assembly could ignore the cold logic of Socialist Deputy Alain Savary: "The choice which France has is not between the European Community and the status quo, but between the European Community and solitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: In the Giant's Steps | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Congratulations on finally admitting the logic of the Southern argument against the Nine Sociologists, even though you still shove aside logic to cling to your legal unrealism on the [race] mixing decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...Albuquerque (pop. 175,500) with 165,000 free program logs, while the far-roving Denver Post snatched at local circulation by adding Albuquerque programs to its daily TV log. "These television stations are asking for the moon," protested the New Mexican's Managing Editor Joe Lawler. Invoking lunar logic himself, Lawler added: "If we list their programs as a service to readers, what's to stop the local grocery store from demanding that we list his specials on ham and potatoes?" Though the press-TV battle is widely debated in New Mexico, it was symptomatic of publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 37 Million Can't Be Wrong | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

After three weeks without a government, logic demanded that France find a solution to her current parliamentary crisis. Grudgingly the politicians slipped into their red velvet seats in the National Assembly to hear what Premier-designate Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury had to say for himself. Alone on the bench where tradition requires candidate Premiers to sweat out their ordeal, youthful (42), high-domed little Bourgès-Maunoury had an attack of stage fright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sheets in the Wind | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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