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...newer achievements for its people in the great moral climate of freedom ... So an revoir. We shall see you on the home diamond somewhere; and when it is all over, all the healing waters will somehow close over our dissidence. and we shall go forward as a solid phalanx once more...
...journalists is to go where the news and the newsmakers are, and a phalanx of TIME correspondents last week spread out to catch the news and views-in Washington, in Wall Street, Pittsburgh. Chicago and among economists and businessmen through the land-of the titanic struggle between the White House and the biggest company in the nation's basic industry. There hadn't been a business story like it in years. For White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, the job meant covering a President capable of presiding genially over a soirée for the Shah of Iran after...
...left-lining Defense Minister Krishna Menon (TIME cover, Feb. 2). Posters hitting at Congress Candidate Menon's soft stand on Red China's border incursions proclaimed: "Patriots vote Kripalani; Communists vote Menon." Through North Bombay's streets snaked a huge Kripalani procession headed by a phalanx of gaily garbed dancers. The demonstrators displayed a giant set of scales in which a full-sized effigy of Kripalani outweighed an image of Menon...
Addressing the Oxford University Conservative Association, Oxford's Chancellor (and Britain's Prime Minister) Harold Macmillan encountered a bit of disloyal, not to say disorderly, opposition. Greeted outside the Oxford Union Debating Hall by a jeering mob of 300 flourishing Ban-the-Bomb signs, Supermac followed a phalanx of rugby-hardened supporters to the back door only to find it bolted. Beating his way back to the front door again, Macmillan found that it, too, was locked, was obliged to hammer away on it for three minutes before unnerved officials inside the building accepted his repeated assurances...
...career; she had published a few songs, and she was an accomplished pianist. But she changed her mind, decided to become a painter, and soon headed for Munich, then and now a haven for the German avantgarde. In 1902 she started studying at a school called the Phalanx, an institution already intoxicated by the 20th century...