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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-engined plane, bearing the hammer and sickle on the fuselage, bore down through the haze toward a runway at New York International Airport, then pulled up again for a second approach and a safe, deft landing. Airport attendants and assembled dignitaries craned for a close look as it taxied up. The TU-114 turboprop was not only the first Russian jet to land in New York but had just made the 4,660 miles from Moscow in a nonstop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Man from the Kremlin | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...plane stepped a stocky, round-faced Russian with a curly iron-grey pompadour who was just as remarkable as the TU-114. He was Soviet First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Man from the Kremlin | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Deputy Premier Frol Romanovich Kozlov, 50, in the U.S. to open up a Soviet science, technology and culture exhibition in Manhattan (see BUSINESS), accompanied by a group of aides that included the big plane's designer, Andrei Tupolev. After a greeting from Soviet Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, Kozlov said in Russian: "I am proud of this opportunity to visit your city and your wonderful country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Man from the Kremlin | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...year out of the Sahara-almost the exact amount needed for domestic consumption. But if France is sold on the Sahara, the Sahara is not entirely sold on France. Last week, as self-styled commis voyageur (traveling salesman) for the Sahara, Soustelle flew in his ministerial plane straight into the scorched and craggy land of the Mozabites, the most sales-resistant people in the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Traveling Salesman | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...pamphlet entitled "Their Morality" carries the publishers contention that it portrays "bourgeois morality in its true likeness," then opens with prize exhibit No. i: Denver's Jack Graham, who sought his mother's insurance in 1955 by filling her luggage with dynamite, killed her and 43 other plane passengers. Graham was executed for the crime-a fact omitted in the account. To show that bourgeois morality prepares for war, the pamphlet falsely quotes U.S. Draft Boss Lewis Hershey: "We need a generation of murderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fair Play | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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