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...racial and religious discrimination, freer foreign trade, the continuing responsibility of the U.S. to share its wealth and technical prowess with the underdeveloped nations of the world. But the liberal looks first to Government to do many of the tasks on the ground that Government can do them quicker. The conservative, who knows that the hasty solution can be fatal, thinks first of private means, then local government, and only of the Federal Government as a last resort. Says Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEW CONSERVATISM | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...best, of course, is to drink it straight . . . from the bottle. It's quicker, cleaner, and more effective...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: More Sedate Topers Shun Cider Jugs | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...CROSSING, by Jean Reverzy (256 pp.; Pantheon; $3.50). The French eye is quick to see beauty, even quicker to see the fatal corruption that lies beneath. This disquieting first novel by a French physician has such a theme: it tells of Palabaud, who has spent sunlit years in Tahiti and has now come home to the bourgeois grey of France to die of an enormously swollen liver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...eight-month tour of Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Soon he will leave on another tour of some 60 countries around the world that will take a full year. In his travels Simon calls on hundreds of distributors, wholesalers and news dealers to help them get TIME quicker and circulate it faster and farther. In the out-of-the-way places these distributors give Simon a royal welcome, for they rarely meet a publisher's representative in the flesh. Says Simon: "We go a long way to help get TIME anywhere to anyone who wants to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...powerful Chevy engine. It will be standard equipment on Chevrolet's Corvette sports car and optional (estimated at $190 extra cost) on every other model. Instead of using a carburetor, the fuel-injection system shoots gasoline and air directly into each cylinder, thus gives faster cold-weather starts, quicker warmups, and better fuel economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Two for the Road | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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