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The Army's Lieut. General James M. Gavin recently alarmed all Europe by predicting that an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union might kill several hundred million people, as the fallout drifted capriciously with the wind, falling on friend and foe alike. If the AEC has achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Measured Fall-Out | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Monopoly on Masters. In a major sense, U.S. pre-eminence in modern architecture is an expression of the country's fabulous industrial expansion. It is also a tribute to the triumphant breakthroughs by U.S. industrialists and engineers whose work (ranging from the pioneering Brooklyn Bridge to the machine precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Maturing Modern | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

On the day Governor Sir John Harding flew back to London to confer with the Eden government last week, his security forces announced the capture of 17 E.O.K.A. terrorists in a mountain sweep. The announcement was timed to support Sir John's report that the tough policy on Cyprus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Not Never Policy | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Novelist Moore, for the most part, lets his characters describe each other with merciless Irish precision. Judith Hearne, alas, is "a boozer," "an ould fraud," and on one "day to end all," she is jostled from her waking daydream by the discovery that the "American" Madden is not rich and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of an Old Maid | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Least Luxurious Club. He has stayed at Columbia ever since, rising through the Ph.D. treadmill ("The most expensive and least luxurious club in the world") and then through the ranks to his present position as dean of the graduate faculties. A tall, slender, willowy man of 48, he remains what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parnassus, Coast to Coast | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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