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The lobbyists with short-sighted Congressional legislators made it impossible for the President and the State Department to get pleas for larger and more flexible Foreign Aid funds. Eisenhower has noted that "one third of all mankind" was awakening to wants and potentialities. The importance of guiding the rising restlessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plan Ahead | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

When Rebel Leader Fidel Castro came down from his 150-mile-long Sierra Maestra hideout last month to smash an army garrison. President Fulgencio Batista launched a "campaign of extermination." Since then, the rebel band has not been sighted, let alone exterminated. Last week Batista sent a new field commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Province in Revolt | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Beck himself was bothered by a sunburned nose when he made his appearance before the committee. He itched, twitched, rubbed and rambled on garrulously about the propriety of secondary boycotts and Teamster growth during his administration. But there was no rambling when .Chairman McClellan sighted across the committee table and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Signal for Rebellion | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Few seniors will be eating early luncheons next year. Short-sighted scheduling has piled up three of the most describe and popular courses into one hour--Monday at twelve.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve O'Clock High | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

Perhaps his strongest political asset is a highly photogenic family of four boys and a girl, who go to St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Bernardsville in the dark green, blue and white kilts of clan Forbes. Their job: to offset the orange-blossom blush worn by handsome, greying Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Grooming for the Groom | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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