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...year-olds tripped quietly into the schools, the crowds grew wilder. A white waitress raised a tattooed arm, threw a rock and hit a Negro woman on the chest. A Negro woman guided her grandchild quietly through a gauntlet of hissing whites until she broke under the strain, undid one button of her blouse and drew a knife. "If any of you jump me, I'm going to use this," she cried. All pretense at education collapsed as the Battle of Nashville got under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Battle of Nashville | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...world-renowned director Tyrone Guthrie proved to be a gifted comic actor as well at his talk in New Lecture Hall last Thursday. After being introduced (or "eulogized," as he put it), he asked permission to doff his jacket, did so, undid his tie, rolled up his sleeves and unbuttoned his shirt. With navel displayed, he gave his ideas on "The Director in the Theatre," after assuring his large audience that "there ain't no one right way of doin' anything...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Guthrie Analyzes Director's Job | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

...mere bookkeeping switches that Dwight Eisenhower was willing to accept, but he argued hard with congressional leaders to get back the other $1.2 billion that cut painfully into the Pentagon's 1958 spending plans. Last week, with economy fervor on Capitol Hill somewhat faded, the Senate undid most of the House's damage. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted out a $34.5 billion defense bill restoring $970 million -85%-of the real meat the House had chopped off. Prospect: passage by the full Senate this week, followed by a compromise measure a lot closer to the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sunshine & Battle Cloud | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...Senate also undid another of the House's heat-of-battle deeds-the vote last May to kill off the Soil Bank's acreage reserve at the end of 1957. A Senate-House conference settled last week on an agriculture appropriations bill that included $500 million to carry the acreage reserve through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sunshine & Battle Cloud | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

MOONSCAPE (Putnam; $3.50)."With clumsy fingers I undid two buttons of her frock, slipped my hand beneath it and ..." And Mika Waltari, whose bestsellers (The Egyptian, The Adventurer, The Wanderer) would be considerably shorter if his heroines knew about zippers, is off meandering again, this time in his native Finland. This volume consists of five not-very-short stories. The title yarn tells what happens to the unbuttoned country girl: she grows up to be a movie star with a boudoir-view of life ("There are no impotent men, only unskilled women, don't you think?"). Another story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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