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Her only official positions are those of Deputy in the National Assembly and chief of South Viet Nam's women's movements, but Mme. Nhu orders around army generals, Cabinet minis ters, and even the President. Though he is often reluctant to go along with her, Diem regularly yields to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Queen Bee | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

"You Men." Washington, although it eventually became quite fond of him, never understood Charlie Wilson-and Detroit's Wilson certainly never understood Washington. The Wilson remarks that would have passed for wry banter in a General Motors boardroom became mat ters of controversy in the capital's political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Engine Charlie | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

Ferhat Abbas was particularly impressed by Bourguiba's account of De Gaulle's position on the Sahara, which the F.L.N. fears France intends to keep. "It is not French sovereignty which is important," De Gaulle had said. "What mat ters is that France should have access to Saharan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Conversation at Midnight | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

Colliding Galaxies. As Baade grew oM, his hair grew white, but his blue eyes were always bright and alert, and his good spirits and accomplishments in astronomy did not diminish. He re-examined the special stars that astronomers had used for a generation to measure great distances-and found that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man at the Window | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

But for all his crudities, Novelist Ott has made a case against war that is as powerful as anything in a recent novel. It is also a savage attack on the German people. A young intellectual rants about the complacency that allowed Hitler's rise: "We have outstanding religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Naked & the Drowned | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

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