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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss O'Neill's tremendous courage is most commendable, but her bigoted zeal robbed the effort of its meaning. A plague on divine lepidopterists who pursue souls as though they were butterflies.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Able and Baker entered and left space at a portentous earthly moment. Just a day earlier Statesman John Foster Dulles had been buried on the date set, and broken, by Russia's Nikita Khrushchev as the deadline for the Western powers to desert West Berlin. Now the Big Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Away from the World & Back | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

That left the Communists as the only major group operating as a political party in Iraq. Embarrassed and unready for any open test, the Communists tried to say that the National Democrats had misinterpreted Kassem's wishes. Thereupon, Kassem called a press conference to say that he still opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: An Act of Conspiracy | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

By the normal standards of American slapstick, featuring a Skelton in every closet, this is the lightest, flakiest brand of pie in the eye. But as performed last week by imported British Comedian Dave King in his first show as Milton Berle's TV summer replacement (NBC, Wed., 9...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Jack Tati | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Needed: Deodorants. Lipton describes the ectoplasmic entrance of one of his pals: "The doorbell rang again, and it was Itchy Gelden, peering in, fidgeting and scratching his crotch. 'Like I don't want to bug you man, if you're busy . . . Are we gonna blow some poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mentholated Eggnog | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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