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...more welcome. He would cry peace and disarmament, but has shown that he has about as much interest in reducing tensions and promoting world order as the Three Stooges. Dag Hammarskjold and Russia's fellow Security Council members, bent on quieting the Congo turmoil, had watched the Soviets stir the fires of chaos, make a grandstand play to Africans by labeling the U.N. a partner to a colonial conspiracy, and egg on the wild Lumumba (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Unwelcome Guest | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...questions that dripped sarcasm as a Nathan's Famous drips mustard: "Where is the evidence of their victories and successes in the world we look upon today? Where are the fruits of that maturity and that experience?" In Kennedy's home town of Boston, Johnson seemed to stir far less crowd-pulling curiosity than Cabot Lodge, the Boston Brahmin, on the beaches of Coney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Voices of Veeps | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...shall we do in this country?" he asked. "What shall we do around the world to reverse the trend of history, to take those actions here in this country and throughout the globe that shall make people feel that in the year of 1961 the American giant began to stir again, the great American boiler began to fire up again, this country began to move ahead again?" Jack Kennedy gave no real answer to his own questions; but the crowd was with him as he continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Campaign Spell | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

When Artist Artzybasheff was apprised of the stir his "clairvoyance" had created, he mused regretfully: "Oh, I forgot to put in those two Russian dogs, didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 29, 1960 | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

Signs were evident that the Russians were planning to put the U.S. on trial rather than Powers, using him as a pretext for a propaganda spectacular. The Kremlin laid down a steady propaganda barrage designed to stir up anger and suspicion toward the U.S. among the Russian people (see FOREIGN NEWS). Said a Soviet radio broadcast: "Not only Powers, the immediate executor of the aggressive actions of the U.S. Government, will be in the dock, but his masters in Washington as well." Once the Russians get full propaganda use of him. Powers himself might get off with a light sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR: The U.S. on Trial | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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