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"A man of loose tongue, intemperate, trusting to tumult, leading the populace to mischief with empty words." That is how Euripides described the typical demagogue, and that is also how Reporter Richard Rovere sees the subject of his biography. Yet it is a measure of McCarthy's defeat that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Nihilist | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Arms are so much a part of the scenery, violence so much an accepted condition, that the news is chronicled in Nicosia's newspapers like the day's temperature readings: the British sergeant's 17-year-old son shot in the back of the head by Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Bitter Breakdown | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

In last week's vote tally, U.D.N. harvested more than 3,000,000 votes, nearly enough to have won the presidency three years ago. What about 1960? Juracy shrugs off the idea as "premature." His big aim right now is to put an end to Brazil's rigged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Coming of Age | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

One of Togetherness' model homes seemed to be coming apart at the foundations. Pomades of publicity once hymned the Liberace family devotion, but last year Pianist Lee and Fiddler-Manager George split up. Last week, from the $100,000 mansion with the Knabe-shaped swimming pool, Mom joined in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Changing Currents. With such a plurality, many a candidate would sit back on his fat margin, trusting to God, motherhood and still squabbling Republicans to keep him out of trouble. Brown knew better than anyone that post-primary factors would still be working in his favor, e.g., on the November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just Plain Pat | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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