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...first, the local peace movement fell into the trap of unilateral disarmament because it tacitly accepted the alternatives of either annihilation-risked or surrender-chosen. Since all signs suggest an increasingly unstable arms race, the Committee simply decided that it is better to live as a slave (hoping and working for a brighter tomorrow) than to end civilization and perhaps the human race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Tolls for Thee | 9/28/1960 | See Source »

...Ember, promoted from subaltern to Commissioner of Deceased Persons, runs out both coffins and burial parties. At novel's end the army marches off to another regrouping point, still expecting 'ever new and more glorious victories." The surviving Drohitzers are left in a defenseless city, a death trap for the advancing enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fading Embers | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

Precisely at 8 o'clock one night last week, the slight, heavily shackled form of 28-year-old English Engineer Peter Poole dropped through the hangman's trap door in Nairobi Prison. For the first time in Kenya's history, a white man was executed for killing an African...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: White Man Hangs | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

City Attorney Fred Talmadge kicked in the back door of one of the houses and found the furniture carefully stacked and covered. In a closet was a trap door, beneath that another trap door, locked from below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sealed-Up Sect | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...oracles tried to capture some of the colloquial ease that made NBC's Huntley and Brinkley outstanding; when President Eisenhower entered the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, his face spattered with confetti, Ed Murrow observed: "It looks like the President is trying to blast his way out of a sand trap." But Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When Vice President Nixon arrived at O'Hare International Airport, a Jeep-borne camera broke through the crowd; when President Eisenhower landed, a cagey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: How Close to Reality? | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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