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...Berlin, suggesting that these really were needed to safeguard world peace. "The Soviet people do not want war . . . For the sake of this, toward the end of this year, we, together with other peace-loving states, will sign a peace treaty with the German Democratic Republic . . . We do not threaten West Berlin . . . we propose a free city status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold War: Back in Uniform | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...message - nonintervention - was the same most everywhere Stevenson went. He did not have far to look for reasons. In Venezuela last week, the Communists and Castroites, who threaten every hemispheric democratic government, burned U.S. Ambassador Teodoro Moscoso's car. In Chile, where famine breeds the same Red-led peasant leagues that already plague Brazil, rioters smashed windows to protest Stevenson's visit. In hapless Bolivia, he witnessed a continuing feud between the government and tin miners that ended in five dead. And in Peru, leftist students who had declared Stevenson persona non grata were dispersed by police with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Hello, But No Help | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...quarter-mile race between the gritty Yale captain and Metcalfe should be a hell-raiser. Bobby Mack of Yale, the fastest two-miler in astern history at 8:53.6, should win his event, but Tim Briault of Cambridge and John Boulter of Oxford will threaten...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: H-Y Track Team Favored Over Oxford-Cambridge | 6/13/1961 | See Source »

People have rushed to the stores to buy copies of the book before any legal difficulties ensue and threaten the sales, as almost happened with Lady Chatterley's Lover two years ago. "I suspect there will be a stink over Cancer," Miller noted...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Miller's Controversial 'Cancer' to Be Sold Here | 5/29/1961 | See Source »

Finally, an enormous, 700-ton steel "guillotine" floodgate has been constructed on the Hollandsche Ijssel River. The huge gates can be clamped down on eight minutes notice when approaching tidal surges threaten the lowlands around The Hague and Delft, where 3,500,000 Dutchmen live. Expected completion of the entire Delta Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Closing the Gap | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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