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Unwelcome Lion. Symptomatic was the story of Pierre Clostermann. France's leading fighter pilot in World War II, a national hero and a Deputy in the National Assembly, Clostermann was a social lion when he first moved to Morocco five years ago to establish a structural-steel concern. Urged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Dangerous Middle | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

Little Laborers. At first, Teacher Janvier had wanted to be a writer. Though she could never see a blackboard, she managed to get through Newcomb College and to take an M.A. in English at Tulane. Then a friend offered her a job as a local factory inspector in charge of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Visitor | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Trevor Howard handles the part of Scobie with a degree of reserve that would seem almost painful if it were not the only way the role could be done. His understanding of a man whose code of justice and firm Catholicism meet a situation in which they seem useless, is...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Heart of the Matter | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

Corridor Clamor. Joe was not without friends, however, and the next day they began arriving in Washington. From McCarthy's own Wisconsin came a pitiful little caravan (which had been stalled for a night in Kenosha with an ailing engine coil) consisting of two cars and a truck. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Joe & the Handmaidens | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

"Our sciences and technology would go to the junk pile. What such a catastrophe would mean morally we can gauge by the pitiful decline of the primitive cultures that takes place before our eyes. The capacity to manufacture [interplanetary space ships] points to a technology towering sky high over ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Martians over France | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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