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As president of the huge (1,500,000-member) United Auto Workers, fire-breathing Walter Philip Reuther is a powerful organizer, bargainer, administrator, politician, social reformer. In addition, red-haired Walter Reuther is a shrewd, smooth public-relations man. Last week, invited to Washington to appear before the McClellan committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Soft Sell | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

As to his greatness, Bobby himself agrees. A floppy, abrupt young gangle-shanks, he stumbles through the physical world of school and subways and summer vacations in a tangle of arms and legs not quite under control. But in the neatly ordered empire of the chessboard, he moves with vast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Master Bobby | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Traps and Deeds. At week's end Britain's Cabinet was still divided. Most of its members were inclined to feel that diplomatic talks with the Greek and Turkish governments should precede conversations with Makarios. Others were dubious about Foot's desire to relax the stringent British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: The Bridge Builder | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Justice Voelker knows the law and loves it, but his writing is as limp as a watch by Dali. All vigils are "lonely," vistas are always "sylvan." time "slips by on leaden wings." Yet, despite the leaden feet of the cliches, the book does move. Author Voelker's characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Luscious Laura | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

"Every Greek expects to be cheated," and Author Lee was mildly embarrassed as his Greek friends checked the scales in grocery shops and counted and recounted their eggs. At home, the mistress of the house lays traps for her servants: "Pencil shavings in a corner, or under a table. Aha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mediterranean Triptych | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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