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But in the face of Rusk's deft testimony, the Senators were soon reduced to politely limp questions, including none on Berlin or Laos. They got back quietly articulate answers that committed the Kennedy Administration to nothing. As against the late Foster Dulles' dismissal of neutralism as "an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Triumph of Manner | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

Like a big fish that has been sometimes sighted but never hooked, Italy's Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli has a reputation as one of the world's best-and most eccentric-pianists, even though he remains elusive to both critics and audiences. Rated as Italy's No. i...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fish in Deep Waters | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

What frustrates him for months is that the raider is not a U-boat at all, but a heavily armed surface vessel well disguised as a merchantman. The raider, the Atlantis, flies whatever flag is convenient, and carries its sham to the point of decking seamen out as female passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1960 | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

Its orbit was a triumph of precision. Echo I was circling the earth once every 121.6 min. at altitudes ranging from 1,018 to 1,160 miles. It deviated from its planned course by only one-tenth of a degree and four miles of altitude. Visible as the brightest stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Different Drummer | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

At first, ornithologists speculated that the birds had hitched a free passage on cattle boats to South America. Now the prevailing theory is that sometime around the turn of the century-when they were first sighted in the Guianas-a single flock of the birds, migrating from Senegal northward, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Long Way from Home | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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