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...riddled by President null Duvalier's army. The next day Dominican rebels were nabbed loading arms on another C46 in Miami, apparently with the suicidal intention of invading Dictator Rafael Trujillo's ironclad state. And for every expedition caught, many more plotters get through to stir up big and little trouble down south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Plotters' Playground | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...Italian villa opulently rising from its verdant grounds is enough to stir the most prosaic of imaginations. The English poets eulogized the effect a long time ago and the sensation has not worn thin. But at Settignano, a few miles from the riches of Florence, there is to be found a villa of very special spiritual proportions. It is I Tatti, the home of Bernard Berenson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Outpost in Settignano | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...abominable" acts of sabotage, F.L.N. leaders in Cairo and Rabat proudly declared themselves the authors of the terror. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, once regarded as a moderate among the rebels, promised more sabotage. Fearing De Gaulle's skillful wooing of the Moslem population, the F.L.N. apparently hopes to stir up enough hatred and dissension to make a mockery out of all talk of "fraternization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Spreading Terror | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...both the President and the Secretary of State, Lodge has a big hand in the shaping of policy. Furthermore, he can, and frequently does, get his instructions changed. He often tells Dulles-or in Dulles' absence, Wilcox-that the course decided upon in Washington is likely to stir reactions or encounter obstacles that the State Department had failed to take into account. Usually Lodge wins his point. Sometimes the "instructions". he gets from Washington are verbatim playbacks of what he wrote out himself. And there are also times when "things happen too fast to rely on specific instructions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Organized Hope | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Berlin. As a young man, Voigt forged 300 marks worth of postal money orders to buy trinkets for his girl, and got a 15-year sentence for the crime. Once out of stir, he could not get a job without papers, and could not get papers without a job. Back in the jug he went, this time for breaking into a police station to try to forge a passport for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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