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Before tackling this momentous question, Adenauer, 86, and De Gaulle, 71, paused for lunch and a siesta. Then it was time for the three-and-a-half hours of hard bargaining on European unity. As it turned out, it was Charles de Gaulle who trimmed his sail a bit by agreeing to withdraw France's latest draft. In return, Adenauer promised not to push too swiftly the idea of a European political superstructure, with an executive to tell governments what to do and a secretary-general and bureaucracy to decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Another Step | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...American economy continues to grow at the present rate of about three-and-a-half per cent a year, the Soviets will probably catch up to the United States in the 1980's, Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, predicted at the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Predicts Soviet Union Growth Will Overtake U.S. | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...Three-and-a-half words only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meet Mr. Hodgson | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...audience has been reckoned to be as high as 25% of all TV homes (40 million), with another 50% picking it up "occasionally." If the show veers from its old-fashioned format of 48-piece orchestra and opera singer in a standard, semiclassical repertory, angry letters pour in. Three-and-a-half years ago, when viewers and listeners* heard that after more than 25 years NBC would have to evict Voice to allow for the modern, ratings-shaped concept of mass over class, Firestone fans became as loud as they had been loyal. Without missing a note, Voice moved over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Voice of 30 Years | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...June 1945, three-and-a-half years later, when President Truman was considering the projected U.S. invasion of Japan, MacArthur's advice was requested. He noted, among other favorable factors: "The hazard and loss will be greatly lessened if an attack is launched from Siberia sufficiently ahead of our target date to commit the enemy to major combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: MacArthur & Yalta | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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