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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along on $40 a month, plus C.U.-the initials of co ukradnete (what you can steal). This cheating, chiefly from government warehouses or government stores, and what the regime calls hooliganism" are the only emotional outlets. Teen-agers annoy old ladies in movies, wind up hard-drinking rock-'n'-roll sessions by jeering at, sometimes battling, cops in the street. The stirrings of intellectuals and the riots of youths have flowered into rebellion in Hungary and a fight for freedom in Poland. But Czechs, subject to foreigners for much of their history, have no tradition of rebellion (their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Docile & Grey | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...battled for a budget as a price of peace, because he championed a civil rights bill, because the Commies gave their people a Sputnik instead of prosperity and better living standards, and because he defended the Supreme Court's decision and our Constitution by sending troops to Little Rock. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...spotlighted by the McClellan committee last summer was the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' creampuff-plump President James G. Cross, who had spent union dough lavishly for personal expenses, including upkeep of a girl friend several times convicted as a tart. After studying the testimony, theA.F.L.-C.I.O.'s rock-firm President George Meany ordered the 160,000-member union to get rid of Cross or else. Last week the Bakery Workers' Cross-bossed executive board balked at the order. Meany & Co. promptly suspended the union, sending it to join Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters in exile from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Into Exile | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Compared to coal-driven plants in the Ohio Valley, which sell electricity at a rock-bottom 4 mills per kwr-h, or the national average of 7 to 8 mills. Shippingport power will cost as much as 65 mills per kw-h because of the high construction cost. Duquesne will tap the power only in peak-load periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: A Baby Is Born | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...shall survive," said the Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. "We shall survive despite the Sunday morning rock 'n' rollers, the disc jockey post mortems, and the third rate flicks. Despite Lawrence Welk and Lester Lanin. Despite the amateur sociologists and their 'adolescent subcultures...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

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