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Word: m (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accept." The West was talking about a foreign ministers' conference on Germany for May n, he said with a grin, and "I'm giving away a Soviet government secret, but I'll tell you anyway that we accept." Of course, he added with a patient shrug, Russia would rather have a summit meeting first: "It would be better if the heavyweights-the chiefs of govern ment-undertook to clear away the enormous debris that has accumulated in international affairs. Let them shift the boulders out of the way and start removing the rubble . . . But if such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: That Certain Smile | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Goals. "I've lived in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and also Britain," says Banda. "I have nothing against those Europeans who think of Africans as human beings. I'm against those who think they're the chosen ones of God and that Africans are their 'boys.' " Banda's immediate goal: to get Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: DR. BANDA: Menace or Martyr? | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...togged in a skintight cream-colored dress-and little else-Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe bantered breathlessly with windswept Chicago newsmen on a potpourri of familiar topics. On underwear: "I have no prejudice against it." Sex: "How do I know about man's need for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. Sex counts like everything else. I'd never discount it." Press conferences: "Occasionally it's fun. Sometimes I can even get a chance to find out what I'm thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...developed a mystical code. Commonest of the symbols, and still in use today, is the chi rho -a combination of the first two Greek letters of the word Christ to form a χ ρ. Similarly, early Christian worshipers and pilgrims used the Latin letters P and E for Peter, M for Mary, T for the Cross. These were often inserted in the names of the worshipers and those they wished to commemorate. Thus the name CRISPINA is written with a Greek X fused with the P, making the chi rho and indicating Crispina's devotion to Christ; beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Key of St. Peter? | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...television, and his shy. Sunday-go-to-meetin' smile provokes what an agent describes as "the sexiest mail in Hollywood." Gimmick: he draws his .38 with his left hand ("That's so's they can't git the drop on me while Ah'm shakin' hands"). Born in Harrah, Okla., Dayle LyMoine Robertson earned a Silver Star during World War II. At 37 he spends much of his spare time drinking milk (three quarts a day), racing quarter horses and taking potshots at his TV opposition. Says Robertson: "The adult westerns are dishonest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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