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...Apparently somebody forgot to square 5,280 in figuring how many square feet there are in a square mile. Fall into that trap, and you convert 500 million feet² to an area the size of Oregon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...Tile Trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...entered the White House after a rough presidential campaign in which he made up his mind that the newsmen acted like a bunch of district attorneys who were more concerned to trap him than get information. This he no longer believes. He no longer feels that he has a hostile audience. In short, after a fairly stormy passage during the last year and a half, he has come out into what seems to him to be calmer water. The economic situation at home is improved, peace has been preserved, and the press conference, which used to be a crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST CONGRESS SINCE EARLY NEW DEAL YEARS | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...anyone who would come forward in the next three months with facts that would ex plain the mystery of Dr. John's strange exit. But though West German and U.S. intelligence officers still profess to be in doubt whether Dr. John defected or was lured into a trap, German public opinion had hardened into the almost unanimous belief that he defected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: $1 19,000 for an Answer | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...mainspring of the action is a murder. A leader of the opposition to a brutal labor czar is cut down before he can testify against the tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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