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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balance of Power. The U.S. State Department doubts that India would relax her cold-war neutrality any more toward Russia than toward the West. Yet Nehru seems to regard neutrality not so much as a negative attitude but as a positive balancing. The question is whether India can get arms from Russia without being sucked into the Russian orbit. "That seems a silly question to most Indians," cabled TIME Correspondent Joe David Brown. "The invariable reply is that India has accepted millions from the U.S. and has not gone to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Point Counterpoint | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

Once the curtain was up, he was the old assured Lennie:' he bounced athletically, contorted his features in the" dramatic passages, let his face relax to an expression of drugged bliss in the lyric ones. He sang to himself and punctuated the more stirring moments with hoarse growls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lennie at La Scala | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...Dean drove the 44th Division hard through Mannheim and Weinheim; then, swinging south toward Austria, the 44th took Lorch, Ulm (where Napoleon had routed 50,000 Austrians), Memmingen and Kempten, and cleared the Fern Pass. Obviously, the war was in its last phase, but strapping Bill Dean would not relax. He called in his regimental commanders and told them: "Our business is fighting. We will keep on fighting until we get the official word that the war has ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Soldier's Soldier | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...come on stage, I wait until I sense the people. Sometimes they are afraid, tense; they don't know what to expect from me. When I start to sing, I try to show them by my face what the music is about. Then I can see them relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Soprano at the Met | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...groups in front of John Harvard thawed out with a cheer while the dates began to relax when they saw that Harvard was pretty much like Princeton after all. Surging on through the Yard, the robust individuals in the increasing mob shouted to the freshman halls, "HoorrrRah, Holworthy, get out and get behind the team!" Each time five or six joined the crowd...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: "A Real Sock It to 'Em" | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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