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Bombarding the U.S. with fallout is just as much an act of aggression as if the Russians dropped the bomb itself on us. Just how much more of the "shoe thumper's insanity are we going to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 10, 1961 | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

None of the Africans seemed to consider that innumerable "offensive, fictitious and erroneous" tirades had been loosed on the U.N. by the Communists (including Khrushchev's shoe-pounding and other Reds' denunciation of Dag Hammarskjold as "Lumumba's murderer") without the West's calling for censure. Some Africans went even farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Double Standard | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...destined to be wiped from the face of the earth, let's make sure we take the shoe thumper and the Soviet Union with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 6, 1961 | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...Bonn wineshop now sells Hennessy cognac at $3.75 a bottle while the best German Weinbrand at the same price gathers dust.* From tiny Fiats to elegant Ferraris, some 400,000 imported cars have been sold in West Germany. In a posh Dusseldorf shoe salon last week, a matron, eyeing the latest square-toed model, snapped: "Is It Italian?" Replied the salesgirl: "Madam, we sell only Italian shoes." German sausage and French pate are pouring into Belgium at twice the pre-1958 rate. One of Brussels' largest stores laid on a Common Market exhibi tion earlier this year called "Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Then Will It Live . . . | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

Each morning at Trung Lap, Sergeant Guy Williams, a U.S. medic, gives free treatment to local peasants. They line up at his thatch-roofed "office," exposing their sores of yaws and jungle rot. Sometimes a hobbling peasant arrives with his foot pierced by a Communist shoe-mine-a viciously barbed spike planted in jungle trails. Two orphan sisters of 7 and 10 trudged in. Both had been wounded five days before by steel splinters from a Viet Cong grenade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NIGHT WAR IN THE JUNGLE | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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