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...Like I said, I had this routine; had it till junior year. Then I took off for Europe and haven't been home since. May never get back. Once you find guts enough to shove on out you don't feel like stopping. It gets in your blood and you know it's good. It's life--not the bottled kind, but real life...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Just Passing Through | 5/20/1958 | See Source »

Commercial airliners, the Airline Pilots Association has disclosed, are involved in an average of four near-collisions every day, and in one quarter of these the planes pass within 100 feet of each other. From 1950 till the Grand Canyon disaster on June 30, 1956, almost seventy collisions involving civil airplanes took place(not including a high military total), but none had previously involved passenger planes. Many experts consider it possible, even likely, that a collision might occur over a large city, where the worst traffic jams are located...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Crowded Sky | 5/15/1958 | See Source »

...place in Designer Ben Edwards' gloomy, fan-vaulted hall, Eric Portman-playing Rochester in the manner of a wholly masculine Tallulah Bankhead-wards off collapse. But Jan Brooks is never Jane. Adapter Hartford's hand is never skilled, and things more and more creak till what goes up, quite melodramatically in smoke, is not so much Thornfield Hall as a mass of theatrical deadwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...Rhine (the British argue that until wealthy West Germany gets its own NATO army, it should help pay the costs of others who protect it). To settle the issue, the British retreated farther than the Germans. They promised to maintain about 50,000 troops on the Rhine till 1961, and instead of the $132 million in support that they wanted for this year alone, they accepted some $100 million spread over three years' time. To soften the impact in Britain, Germany agreed to deposit $140 million in London for purchase of arms and services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Natural Alliance | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...Till the conversion of the Jews" was Poet Andrew Marvell's way of indicating an immeasurably long period of time, and throughout history Christians have taken pains to hasten the day-from plain torture to the gentler persuasion of the American Board of Missions to the Jews. Such efforts are a grave mistake, writes Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the C.C.A.R. Journal, a quarterly of the Central Conference of American Rabbis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Advice to Converters | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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