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Amid the stainless steel, leatherette and Formica of coffee shops in Manhattan's Radio City, balding businessmen and their wives from Wichita or Fort Wayne worried over the foreign schedules prepared by hard-pressed travel agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Summertime Madness | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

By 10:30, when a truckload of soup stood ready to be unloaded and passed out by a detachment of police, the hungry prisoners were hammering and pounding at the rotted wooden doors that closed their cells. A few of the old doors gave way, and the suddenly freed men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coffee Break | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Author Smith (a father of two boys eleven and eight years old) is also pretty tired of such notations on his children's report cards as "gets along well with the group." He would like to see the return of solid rules of behavior which all kids, understood and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pop Is No Pal | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

I NEVER say a good word about my secretary outside the office," says a Chicago lawyer. "If I did, somebody else would have her on his payroll tomorrow." To many U.S. businessmen such caution is normal. Though a record 21 million U.S. women are working, only about 2 million hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They're Either Too Pretty or Too Old | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

The electron microscope shows that in green leaves the chlorophyll is arranged in flat disks like piles of plates. Biologists suspected that this delicate laminated structure had something to do with photosynthesis, but they could not make sense out of it until Bell Telephone Laboratories invented its solar battery, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nature's Solar Batteries | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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