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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Business." "I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper political or governmental activity of function or responsibility," said Eisenhower. "This thing has, for very great denominations, a religious meaning ... I have no quarrel with them, as a matter of fact this being largely the Catholic Church, they are one of the groups that I admire and respect, but this has nothing to do with governmental contact with other governments. We do not intend to interfere with . . . the internal affairs of any other government . . . And if they want to go to someone for help, they should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Birth-Control Issue | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Worriedly, Indians began asking themselves: After Nehru, who? It was and is the favorite New Delhi dinner topic. Food Minister S. K. Patil put the matter bluntly: "Nehru is the greatest asset we have because he is just like a banyan tree under whose shade millions take shelter." He added that Nehru is also a liability, "because in the shade of that banyan tree, biologically, nothing grows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...until New Delhi, black tie for state occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi) and-a matter of vital importance to deadline-conscious newsmen-the time differential between New York and each stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle Orders | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...result falls somewhere between Who's Who and Confidential. In a foreword Amory boasts that no one listed in the register "paid to get in-or, for that matter, to get out." The listing on Novelist Truman Capote says that he has "a foliage of blond and somehow defensive bangs." Marie ("The Body") McDonald is described as "one of the most remarkable wives in the country-she has had seven marriages but only three actual husbands." The entry on Charles Van Doren was hastily updated to include a reference to his October shame: "Suspended by NBC . . . pending the outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Noisemakers | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Washington. Said Ike: "I personally am ready each morning to take an oath that I am not a Communist and that I am loyal to the United States. I think, however, that when we begin to single out any group of citizens and say, 'This is a matter of legal compulsion,' I can see why they are resentful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Oath Is Enough | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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