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Three R's. Telecasting from an old roller-skating rink, WGBH-TV takes full advantage of its freedom from sponsors and their demands. Its leisurely, professorial pace and erratic showmanship would send Madison Avenue professionals out for triple martinis. Scheduled shows often run overtime. Between programs, instead of the hard sell there is often soft classical music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Boston Beacon | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Everywhere, on mud walls and in expensive neon lights, the Congress Party svmbol of two yoked oxen could be seen. Virtually helpless to fight against the incumbent party's steam roller, all the opposition could do was hope to build, as one of them put it, "a healthy opposition" against the day when Nehru will not be around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Love & Unity | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...current English tour Rock 'n' Roller Haley has reaped the profits of the craze. Haley and his Comets played to packed houses for four days in London, are now zooming through the industrial cities of the north. At one rocking session Bassist Al Rex was so carried away by the shrieks of 3,000 fans he ripped his pants straddling his big fiddle, played on anyway. Haley's disk of Rock Around the Clock has become the first record to sell a million copies in Great Britain. And even the more dignified of the British papers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Roll, Britannia! | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...order, Déjoie's prestige began to drop. As it fell, up went the fortunes of another candidate, Daniel Fignole, a leftist spellbinder with a strong latent hold on the lowly blacks of Port-au-Prince. Smoothly maneuvering what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency. "A bas Déjoie!" shouted the throng. Déjoie hastily called off the dying strike. Unimpressed, the Assembly chose for provisional President a neutral lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Battle of Article 81 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Buffalo-Springfield Roller Co.'s 16-ton ''Kompactor," which packs roads by exerting 480 lbs. of pressure per sq. in. with its four giant roller wheels. Each wheel is faced with staggered rows of steel pads that form the compacting surfaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: The Golden Road | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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