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...face of Nikita Khrushchev, looming on this week's cover against a symbolic background of the U.S., was painted by Bernard Safran, the son of a Russian immigrant who escaped to the U.S. in 1908 at 18, after being exiled to Siberia from his native town of Priluki (near Kiev) in the Ukraine. U.S.-born Bernie Safran studied hundreds of pictures of Khrushchev in action, finally painted the cocksure impression of a dictator that most Americans will best remember after the guest departs...
...Khrushchev portrait is Artist Safran's 13th cover for TIME (others: Queen Elizabeth, Jack Paar, Ludwig Erhard, Mao Tse-tung). Born in Brooklyn 35 years ago, he studied art at Pratt Institute near his home, served with aviation engineers in the China-Burma-India theater during the war (rode a truck on the Burma Road), turned to commercial art and book-jacket illustration after the war. An unashamed copyist, who perfected his techniques by long hours of studying the masterpieces of Velasquez, Rembrandt and Rubens in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he did his first cover...
...dead in all. Body fragments flew across the street to the roof of a two-story apartment house. Orgeron's left hand-all that could be identified of the man-landed in a hedge 50 ft. away. Principal Doty lay injured on the ground, and 17 children, strewn near by, screamed in pain. A little boy writhed naked, his foot nearly blown off. "That mean old man!" he sobbed. "That mean old man! Will somebody get him? Will I need a crutch for my foot? Why did he have...
...Other police doctors told how Podola gradually began to recover, and even to volunteer remembered bits, e.g., a memory picture of a woman called Ruth, and a child called Micky he believed was theirs. Noting signs of Podola's "withdrawal," one doctor said that Podola "liked to keep near the wall when he moved along the corridor." "It is an accepted thing that distinguished scholars like to walk near the wall," observed Mr. Justice Davies. "Dr. Johnson did it all his life," volunteered Counsel Lawton amid laughter, "going along touching doorposts down Fleet Street...
...President Loren M. Whittington of Cleveland's Society National Bank. "Business has to get money for inventory and capital spending by borrowing. But banks are pretty well loaned up." Inventory buying has already begun to level off. In 1959's first half, manufacturers boosted inventories by a near-record $2.9 billion, raised the total to $52.1 billion, fast approaching the alltime high of $54.2 billion in mid-1957. But in July, inventories rose by only $100 million. The steel strike is another major factor in slowing inventory buying. "Steel is having its recession right now," explains a steel...