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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went, the U.S.-Russia cultural exchange agreement went a good way. But measured against the idea-or even the U.S. Government's original minimum conditions-it left much to be desired. It failed to 1) bind the Russians to stop jamming U.S. news broadcasts into Russia, 2) give the U.S. some minimum uncensored access to Russia's controlled press and radio and television to match the uncensored play Russia gets daily in the U.S., or 3) stop Russia from declaring much of its country off base to U.S. visitors, a ban that is reciprocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Big Swap | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Ceylon is swinging sharply left, and frail, fidgety Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 58, seems unwilling or unable-or both-to stop it. This week, as Ceylon marks the tenth anniversary of its independence from Britain, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree is flying out to check for himself reports that the Indian Ocean island off the southeast coast of India is well on the way to becoming another Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Conflict & Complacency | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

When eleven-year-old Roscoe McGeorge refused to stop playing with cards in the back row of a fourth-grade penmanship class in Cincinnati's Washington Elementary School. Teacher Gayle Graner decided to take appropriate action. She told him to turn over and gave him a paddling. Roscoe's outraged mother had her arrested for assault and battery, but 22-year-old Teacher Graner, though less than a year out of the University of Cincinnati's Teachers College, is not one to be easily intimidated. "Yes. I paddled him," she told reporters. "I have firm ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Firm One | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...pocketed $200 he had given them to make the last payment due on his trade-in, sold the trade-in under the clergyman's name (it promptly became involved in an accident for which he was held liable). After Crouch complained that he was going to stop payments until matters were straightened out, Caruso earnestly telephoned to ask the minister where he was preaching the next Sunday because he wanted to hear him. During services, the minister's car mysteriously disappeared. Later it turned up for sale on Caruso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Greatest | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...only blurred shapes. An undertaker, in the first of a series of long interior monologues, recognizes Stella, Machek's beautiful youngest daughter. With guilt and confusion, he recalls a day ten months before when Stella, a stranger, climbed in beside him as his empty hearse idled at a stop light, said "Take me to your place.'' Slowly some details emerge: he drove her from the Polish quarter of their New Jersey factory town to a cheap Manhattan hotel, later fled, left her to stare vacantly at the ceiling. The symbolism of the recollected scene-the hearse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Machek's Wake | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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