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Just what kind of leaders do they have in the party who whine like a child when the smallest storm arises? Those lackluster politicians who ever since this investigation broke have been sounding like sob sisters trying to make Adams quit -who needs them? CHARLES F. BUTLER North Abington, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...modern pagans is the opinion of those who define fecundity as a social evil." Enumerating the blessings of having many children, the Pope added: "No sooner are the happy pilgrimages to the baptismal font ended than the bright series of first communions and confirmations begins, and when the smallest brother puts away his first-communion suit, out comes the family's first nuptial veil, bringing together before the altar the parents, all the children, and the delight of new in-laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: THE POPE SPEAKS | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...Stagg never drank. And beyond a couple of corn silks as a kid, he has never smoked. The one chink in Stagg's Spartan do-without-it armor is candy. He has always kept sourballs or similar hard candies on his dining table, has also allowed himself the smallest of indulgences in the smallest of ways: he cuts a stick of gum into three or four smidgens, chews one minuscule fragment at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Adding Life to Years | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...trouble, according to Bing, is that "the American public has been completely ruined by the press, radio, television and the movies; they have been so educated to the star cult that even the smallest little provincial city will take opera only if it has a star. I see no desire of the public in the country to build opera from young companies." What about Santa Fe, which has recently formed a successful summer opera company? "Where," said Rudi Bing, "is Santa Fe?" In a rare, ruffled moment, he added: "Perhaps I am too much of a European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where Is Santa Fe? | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...subject of Rudolph's talk was the "Kerala situation." The smallest of the Indian states, Kerala elected a Communist government in 1957. This marked the first time Communism as a political force has assumed power through electoral processes within a constitutional system...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Rudolph States Indian Reds' Aims | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

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