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...only way the West can win the cold war, said Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco in an interview with Newspaper Editor Roy Howard last week, is to slap an immediate embargo on all trade with Russia and her satellites. Franco's proposal found informal support in a surprising place: among the Far Eastern experts in the U.S. State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Possibilities for Friction | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...Without a Horse. Lerner is more of a stickler for background than for plot. Because some of his finest locales are marred by modern improvements, he has assembled some 500 masking pieces: "You slap a proclamation over a Coca-Cola sign, cover light poles with trees, mask power lines with branches, introduce a coach-and-four and-whammo- you got a 17th century pastorale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Slanted Fact | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...conductor and narrator of this particular trip through The Tunnel of Love is a slap-happy cartoon editor named Dick. He sometimes wanders off the track to a dream cottage and holds imaginary conversations with beautiful women: "I like . . . deep woods and the smell of pine," one beauty murmurs. "I love pine." "I love yew," whispers Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virtue of Vice | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Fair Trade prices were so high that they left a fat margin for the discounter to cut. The laws can be enforced against big, well-known stores (e.g., New York's R. H. Macy & Co., Bloomingdale Bros., Abraham & Straus), but few manufacturers have the time or energy to slap a lawsuit on every small discounter. Some big companies such as Sunbeam, Magnavox and General Electric are trying to police their dealers rigidly. But many companies are none too anxious to lower the boom on discount stores that move large quantities of goods, since the manufacturer still gets his full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: DISCOUNT HOUSES | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Within this narrow time span, Dr. Negovsky and his colleagues slap on a pulmoťor type of respirator and slip a transfusion needle into an arm or leg artery. Then, pumping toward the heart, they give blood that has been generously spiked with adrenalin and glucose. Heart action is generally revived in less than a minute. Blood is then transfused by vein. Restoration of breathing may take as long as 18 minutes. Only after this are the higher nervous centers revived, with the body functions that they control. If the process is too prolonged, some brain centers never recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Adrenalin for the Dead | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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