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...country where history often repeats itself because its citizens react, like Pavlov's dogs, to bells rung by historical parallels, the Presidency of the Fifth Republic might well travel the same road as the Presidency of the Third...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: General DeGaulle's Attempt At Squaring the Circle | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...true of most plays that some, if not all, of the characters undergo a big change by the time the curtain is rung down. Here, curiously, every character is just the same at the end of the play as at the start. Yet this does not yield a vacuum. Events do transpire; and the essential elements of conflict and suspense are not lacking...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...true of most plays that some, if not all, of the characters undergo a big change by the time the final curtain is rung down. Here, curiously, every character is just the same at the end of the play as at the start. Yet this does not yield a vacuum. Events do transpire; and the essential elements of conflict and suspense are not lacking...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Hole in the Head | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

...House of Commons, Eisenhower arose to the drumming of open hands on desk tops to make the definitive speech of his visit. He came bearing concessions but no apologies. In a chamber that has rung on occasion with harsh judgments of Washington's words and works, he defended in plain words the policies that he was not prepared to alter. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Plain Talk Between Friends | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...m.p.h. from a high-flying missile. Next he will try to recover an orbiting satellite, to prove that the drag and heat problems on re-entry have been solved. He will send up and recover bigger and bigger animals, with chimpanzees on the top of the ladder, only one rung below man. Says Dr. Stapp: "When we've done the whole thing with three consecutive successes, getting the chimps back alive, then we'll be ready to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: OUTWARD BOUND | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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