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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE date was Aug. 26, 1957. The announcement from the Kremlin was heavy with meaning to the free world's defenses. The Soviet Union had test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile, and as days went by, Russia's Khrushchev pushed a new form of missile diplomacy, pouring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Safety Catch On the Deterrent | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

"These people," he continues, "are often very concerned about their own identity, who they are, and if Harvard has any meaning to this identity. Most of them view their problem in physically overwhelming terms, that of ordering their cosmos, of finding their place in the the universe. Sometimes there are...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: VOLUNTARY WITHDRAWALS: APPROVED BY UNIVERSITY, BENEFICIAL TO STUDENTS | 4/24/1958 | See Source »

The Burning Desire. Kishi's enemies, making a pun on his name, call him ryō kishi-meaning, roughly, "one who tries to keep a foot on both banks of the river." During the three years he spent in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a "war crimes suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Rising Sun | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

IT is not easy to find meaning amid the drips and daubs, splashes and swirls of contemporary abstract painting. But John I. H. Baur, curator of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, believes he has found more in U.S. modern art than even the artists admit. He has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NATURE IN ABSTRACTION | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Although director Stephen Randall would have done well to have reined in the louder-voiced members of his cast, his blocking was superb throughout. While most undergraduate directors can be said to have done well if they have kept their players off each other's toes, Randall continually enhances the...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: King Lear | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

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