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Someone else was trying to solve the Iranian problem last week. Her name was Madame Sadika Garagozlou. She was a slim ash blonde with full-blown lips and eyes that would melt the heart of an Italian galley pirate, if not of a British diplomat. In Rome last week, she left behind a trail of perfume, but what she had to sell was more pungent: Iranian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Front Man | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Like many a U.S. minister, Adventist Rustad had looked enviously at the movie drive-in crowds. In Yankton, S. Dak. three years ago, he gathered a crowd for a drive-in religious service - only to have it melt away when an early snowstorm struck. When he went to Arizona, he tried again. Last year, with Adventist Elder Lawrence E. Davidson of Phoenix, he rented a small lot for the purpose. Services went so well that this year the Adventists took over two larger plots, one of them in the Negro section of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Drive-ln Chapels | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...these first few months when the newcomer was trying to melt into the college landscape, the CRIMSON'S weekly fashion column was solving his sartorial problems. "If you are interested in any question of dress or etiquette," the column stated, "write the 'Well Dressed Man' care of the Harvard CRIMSON and your letter will receive prompt and careful attention...

Author: By David C.D. Rogers, | Title: Riots, Mental Telepathy, Exams and Probation Among Vivid Memories of 1927's Initial Years | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...heating lies in speed itself. When high speeds are reached. Rice points out, there is a certain time lag before the airplane's structure heats to the danger point. Future military planes may be fast enough to accomplish their missions and slow down again before they begin to melt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fast & Hot | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...human race." The Russell solution: "A single Government for the whole planet." But he concedes that "world Government is not possible unless Communism is overthrown or conquers the whole world." No friend of the Soviet system, Russell prefers the first alternative, but he feels that the Iron Curtain might melt quicker before a flow of Western goods than a flow of invective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright-Eyed Rationalism | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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