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Alongside bustling, burgeoning West Germany (pop. 52 million), the Soviet-rigged German Democratic Republic, with its grey, ruin-strewn cities and 17½ million sullen, shabby subjects, looks a sorry state. It is a poor thing, but Khrushchev's own. He is determined to hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Most Useful Satellite | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...unfortunately, hasn't won a game worth winning all year long. You can understand what that's done to Yale's feelings, the way she looks at herself. We learn that the churches in New Haven have been jammed, remorse frothing from a thousand lips. Liquor sales soared as sullen undergraduates sat limp in their smokefilled digs, drowning the memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Study of History | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

With the third period, things didn't improve much. The team fell behind by one more touchdown and Sebbie became sullen and withdrawn...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Prince and the Pauper | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

...small, two-room office, the Bird allows himself but one flamboyance: two telephones-one green, one red. In accord with Hollywood tradition, the red phone has an unlisted number. On the rare occasions when it rings, the Bird stares at it in sullen suspicion. Has the town finally got his number? Then he relaxes. "No one knows that phone. Must be a wrong number," he says, and refuses to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rally Round the Flack, Boys | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...which is translated by Poles as "poor, terrible and atrocious." There remain a few privately owned restaurants, but they differ from the state-owned only in the fact that the customer may have to wait 20 instead of 30 minutes before his presence is acknowledged by the sullen and inefficient staffs. On an average Warsaw evening, nearly every restaurant is the scene of brawls and near brawls between outraged customers and stony-eyed waiters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Hygiene of the Soul | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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