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...outspokenly applauded the maestro's action: "Many times in my own life I have wished that I could have handled the press photographers as well!" Unfortunately, Truman's interpreter omitted the word "photographers." Next day Austria's press, keener on its dignity than many a pencil-clutching U.S. newsman who used to tangle with Harry, took umbrage. Growled a correspondent for Vienna's Neuer Kurier: "It [was] very unsuitable for Mr. Truman to insult the press of this country while a guest at an official reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 11, 1956 | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

Dulles listened, chewing on the end of a pencil. Then he spoke, beginning by reiterating the need for maintaining the West's defenses. The most urgent new problem was how to keep the underdeveloped countries out of the Communists' hands. Then. he. too, launched into negatives. The U.S. did not think NATO should be converted into an economic body, either to channel aid or to plan it. If NATO tried to develop economic programs to help, it might be misrepresented as a revival of Western colonialism in economic form. Dulles favors expanding NATO's political instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: What Can We Do? | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...kissing game-a most natural expression for Twelve." But while some of the girls are already thinking about marriage, some boys are determined to remain bachelors forever. The boys develop an apparently irresistible desire to tease a girl. "Soon they are snatching a girl's wallet or pencil box and are off to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Normal Problem Child | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture. He took it calmly. Seated firmly behind his Washington desk, listening to politicians warn him that his policies are going to lose the election, Secretary Benson glanced often at a motto, in small type, pasted to the marble base of his pen and pencil set, where only he could see it. "Oh Lord," it says, "give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Revolution, Not Revolt | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Bridge of Sighs. In Fairview, N.J., Bartender Albert Sotta rushed moaning into police headquarters, gestured wildly for the desk lieutenant to hand him a pencil, rapidly scribbled a note: "Help me-my tongue is caught in my false teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 23, 1956 | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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