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...stamped out in his campaign to restore Communist authority in Poland is official tolerance of private farms. So stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms total less than 1% of the nation's arable land. Would Khrushchev spoil everything with one of his off-the-cob remarks? Gomulka wanted no independent witnesses present when Nikita got to talking about agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: This Side of Paradise | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...about the future. When Fabian grows old-18 or 19, that is-he will still have the movies. The boy's notion that he might like to have a crack at college is something Marcucci should be able to handle. There is only one danger that may yet spoil a potentially brilliant career: all of a sudden, Fabian has decided that he would really like to learn how to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Tuneless Tiger | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Pantomime Quiz (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A parade of charades. Diverting potpourri, even if too many kooks sometimes spoil the broth. M.C. Mike Stokie stirs up more of the same every weekday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...their standardized and monotonous displays, efficient atmosphere. "We've probably done ourselves a disservice by packaging tomatoes," says Kroger President Joseph B. Hall. "I think a housewife would still like to be able to pinch a tomato before she buys, and maybe we should let her. It might spoil a few tomatoes, but we'd probably sell more in the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bread & Circuses | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...have been transferred out of Algeria. De Gaulle's Governor General, Paul Delouvrier, constantly reminds the Ultras that "policy is made in Paris, even for Algiers," last week bluntly told "those who would divide us" to "shut up or get out." The Ultras are still strong enough to spoil a birthday, but not to wreck a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Second May 13 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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