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...British decision, went on to regret the Swedish position. "When the patient is sick," he said, "is no time for the doctor to leave." He insisted that the U.N. observers had not been able to get behind all the rebel lines, cited U.S. evidence of infiltration, added that the shrill incitements of Cairo newspapers and radio alone constituted interference. "Is the United Nations to condone indirect aggression in plain clothes from outside a country?" If it cannot deal with such aggression, said Lodge, leaning forward intently, "the United Nations will break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED NATIONS: Rocky Road | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...spur the breadwinner on. MacDonald regularly sends cards to the home showing the salesman's standing in a current company contest, gives wives tags to hang on furniture around the house to remind their husbands of the furnishings they can earn. Some firms have even sent buzzers and shrill whistles to a salesman's children; when dad asks what the noise is all about, the kids are instructed to tell him it's only a reminder to straighten up and sell harder. More constructively, Carrier Corp. recently launched a three-month sales drive. First prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING & SELLING: Spur for the Front Lines | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

Stanley Tackney does well as the news analyst who once said over the air, "Congratulations, President Dewey." Josephine Nichols, as his scatter-brained wife, would be fine if she didn't keep letting her voice rise to a shrill level. Kathern Shaw and Jeff Davis make an appealing pair of lovers, while Stratton Walling, John Lasell and an amazingly well-trained cat give capable support...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Shakespeare, Vidal Comedies Highlight Drama Week | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...urgent problem of Lebanon had indeed been aggravated by the shrill symphony of hate orchestrated from Radio Cairo, and the rebels had been mischievously bolstered by arms and men smuggled in from Nasser's Syria, but the solution to most of Lebanon's troubles was still to be found inside its own border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Posing the Right Question | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...dial turner in search of music these days is likely to encounter a shrill, nasal voice spewing at triphammer speed sentiments something like these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple, Man, Purple | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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