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...that historic appeal, its author, still clad in the uniform of a brigadier general, rolled up the Champs-Elysées in an open limousine. 'As he passed, his arms flung wide in a giant V for victory, hundreds of thousands of voices kept up a continuous roar of Vive De Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Breathing Spell | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...bill voted out of his committee seemed a magnanimous, bipartisan bow to the President's wishes-and the President indeed bowed gratefully in return. Then, as the bill headed for the House floor, Ike had some deep reservations (TIME, June 9) and fired them off with an unaccustomed roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Weakened Defense | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Slop." Deadpanned, stony-eyed, the dancers stalked the stage in chilling isolation, occasionally made wary, shoulder-grazing efforts to come together, then drifted off again into the kind of cool depths no adult can plumb. The audience sat solemn-faced, but greeted the final curtain with a roar of applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shangri-La for Artists | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Rhythm Section. To feel Gulbenkian's anger, an acquaintance once said, was "to know the electric chair without death." The danger signal was an open-palmed slap, slap, slap on the bald dome, often followed by the saliva-flecked roar, "You are a broken reed I" If Gulbenkian was something of a solid gold Scrooge, he also had Scroogian fears. According to Young, the sordid 1920 murder of a Manhattan pawnbroker named Gulbenkian, no kin, scared him out of ever visiting the U.S. He reputedly kept a ton and a half of gold in his London safes, presumably against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solid Gold Scrooge | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...with a loving heavenly Father as Christ described it to be, or is it just a series of thought vibrations by which we correct the spiritual imbalance between man and his natural environment?" roar of rockets rushing through space . . . how shall we think of time, and timelessness, and eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Geo-Theological Year? | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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