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...Westerners, Byzantine art has seemed stiff, hieratic and almost primitive. A partial excuse is that, until this century, many of its major accomplishments were hidden. Moslems plastered over the great mosaics of the churches of St. Sophia and Kariye Camii (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955) in Istanbul. Much other religious art was tucked away in inaccessible monasteries. Icons were heavily overpainted and smudged by centuries of candle smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART OF BYZANTIUM | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...does not get garbled in transmission, Soustelle has already replaced some ten key members of the government-run Radio-Television FranÇaise. Increasingly, French radio, television and newsreels are becoming sycophantic in praise of De Gaulle. When a parliamentary committee accused Soustelle of imposing on France "unilateral and partial information," ex-Marxist Soustelle's brushoff reply to this accusation recalled to Figaro Soustelle's youthful training in Communist dialectic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Selling the Constitution | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

What are the specifications for a spaceman? Dr. Balke and his crew supplied partial answers: he will be a lean, athletic type (bulging muscles are useless excess baggage), a scientist, and aged 35 to 45-men in this bracket have it over their juniors in greater emotional stability, endurance for tedious tasks, and better judgment as the result of longer training and experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Specifications for Space | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...month ago Belle apparently started systematically looting the companies. As a sample of his thoroughness, he even tried to get the employees' pension funds of one of the companies, Troop Water Heater Co. Though the bank that held the funds in trust refused to go along, Belle got partial revenge. All but about $900 of the final week's paychecks for Troop, amounting to $4,500, bounced because Belle withdrew the funds before he fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: The Boy Wonder | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Cricket. In Brisbane, Australia, Jewelry Dealer S. Lewis ran an ad offering to take sporting goods in partial payment for engagement rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 30, 1958 | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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