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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fact No. 2: Last week, as the Geneva conference limped along, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles hinted at his press conference that the U.S. had detected additional Soviet tests since October's end. "There is some slight evidence at least," he said, "that there may have been more tests than the two which were definitely identified, picked up and announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: More Soviet Tests? | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...When she awakens the world will be sorry." Eying the path along which Mao proposes to lead an awakened China, most of the world, if not yet sorry, is already apprehensive. In Warsaw recently a Communist editor nervously reflected that "the entire Polish nation represents little more than a slight miscalculation in Chinese population statistics for one year." In the U.S. some thoughtful men argue that within a generation the U.S. will be helping bolster Soviet defenses against Communist China. Writing in London's New Statesman, British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman reports that he came back from a trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Year of the Leap | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...time, one of the few white blues singers who ever belonged there. Ahead of her were further club dates in Chicago, San Francisco and a return to New York, as well as an LP for Dot. Said Record Executive Al Levitt, in what is only a slight exaggeration: "A voice like this hasn't been recorded in 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: A Gasser | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Defensively, both teams have had their most serious problems guarding their flanks, Each squad is fairly strong in the middle of the line, with the Crimson rating a slight edge here thanks to greater experience...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Crimson Eleven Favored to Wreak Revenge Against Yale Today Before Crowd of 40,000 | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...When Curley was around," Professor Charles Cherington recalls,, "he told the stories." And as Curley himself once remarked, "It isn't what a politician says but what he whispsrs that gives a slight clue to what he may be thinking." Thus, an attempt to give even so modest an account of Curley as his Harvard History is infected with compounds of uncertainty. But it has its compensations. To go from the faded pages of ancient Crimsons or the often jaundiced accounts of old adversaries to Curley's own recollections is to proceed from Arctic regions to land of balmy, ever...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

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