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...teeth and braced for anything up to and including the warm-water landing of a man-in-space shot. The Pentagon was concerned over the blunt intrusion of Russian missile power of whatever kind into the Central Pacific. But in the strict sense, the U.S. could do nothing to stall off the Soviet rockets into the Pacific without abridging its traditional support for freedom of the seas and bringing into question the U.S.'s own missile shots into international waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Pacific Challenge | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...incredible second half, the Crimson put on a truly amazing defensive show. The first team limited the Engineers to two points in the first three minutes, and allowed M.I.T. merely 14 markers in the entire period. Meanwhile, the Crimson scoring continued apace, until Wilson apparently ordered a stall with 13 minutes to play...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Basketball Players Romp To Easy 84-34 Triumph at M.I.T. | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Otherwise, though the action has been sedulously (and sometimes clumsily) chopped up into various locales, the film is faithful to the spirit of its original. It is still about the social, marital, and personal maladjustment of a "working-class intellectual," a university-educated sweet-stall operator named Jimmy Porter. In his frequent periods of depression, Jimmy still has recourse to blowing his Dixieland trumpet, and when feeling good he still composes pseudo-music hall songs combining sex and sociology, one of which is entitled "Don't Be Afraid to Sleep with Your Sweetheart Just Because She's Better Than...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Look Back in Anger | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter runs a sweets stall in the marketplace, when he is not thundering harangues against Alison and her upper-middle-class family and friends. His wife loves him despite his ambition to "stand up in your tears, splash about in them and sing." But finally she has had enough and goes home to her parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...quite see eye to eye . . . and see if we can do something about it," said the President at his press conference. Secretary of State Herter, on the road to Geneva, would probably sound out De Gaulle on coming to the U.S. Some U.S. authorities believe that De Gaulle may stall until the French test-fire their first atom bomb in the Sahara this summer, and can thus enter NATO's inner nuclear club with stronger cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A-Bombs for Allies? | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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