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...since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Old Balkan Game | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...YELLER-HEADED SUMMER, by Francis Irby Gwaltney (207 pp.; Rinehart; $3), proves once again that a passel of li'l ole mental defectives can be pretty funny if they speak with a Southern drawl. Dim-witted Jack Winters, hero of this first novel, is constable of Walnut Creek, Ark., and a Bedder-which means that his folks were pore white trash who scratched out a living in a dry river bed. But Jack is proud of his gun and his badge; he loves to crank up the siren on the state police car, and his noblest ambition used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...relying on the West only for those few closely guarded facts which it could successfully steal. But when the Russians change a line, they really change it. As part of the new propaganda drive to persuade everyone that the East and West can cooperate, a passel of Russan scientists arrived breathlessly and unexpectedly last week in Copenhagen on the fourth day of a seven-day gathering of the International Union for the Protection of Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Hi, Fellows | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Giants had to play through without Willie; his draft number came up. Mays applied for a deferment on the ground that he was the principal support of his mother and a passel of nine half-brothers and sisters back in Alabama; it was not granted. He flunked his pre-induction aptitude test. But the Army prevailed nonetheless. With Mays gone, the Giants finished 1952 in second place, 4½ games behind the Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Dadgum it! A friend o' mine hand me a passel o' ed'torial pages from the CRIMSON 'tother day, as I wuz warmin' m'self next th' potbellied stove up to th' country store. They wuz mark'd all over with blue crayon like they wuz important ,er somethin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

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