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...This Was It." "I was spoiled," she sobs on her deathbed. "I was bitter and heartless, but if God allows me to live a while, I'll try to undo it all. . . I lived for what was to come, and in my foolishness didn't know that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hate In Ireland | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

That parley was designed to undo the work of the Nazis and restore freedom of navigation on the Danube. Vishinsky headed the Russian delegation, and six East European satellites followed his every cue. In the minority were the U.S., Britain and France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Russian Way | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...battle between Russia and the West; what is implied is that Yugoslavia's Tito-and future Titos elsewhere-may do the U.S.'s job of defeating Communism. U.S. policymakers particularly cherish the notion that Mao Tse-tung will pull a Tito, and at least partly undo the greatest political disaster which the West (largely because of the blindness and timidity of U.S. policy) has suffered in the 20th Century, i.e., the passing of 450 minion Chinese under the sway of Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: STALIN & CHAIRMAN MAO | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...University of Chicago knew just the kind of man it wanted to succeed Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins. He had to be someone who would not try to undo 20 years of Robert Hutchins, yet he must not be so dedicated to the Hutchins theories that he would contribute nothing new. Sighed one trustee: "We'll just start with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Chancellor at Chicago | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Mail Call. But such contrition was not enough to undo the damage. The impact of the Hume note had given all the President's private correspondence an enormous curiosity value and had prompted the world to expect the worst. A letter to Louisiana's Congressman F. Edward Hebert, which ordinarily would have aroused only passing interest, made Page One and caused a second round of lugubrious headshaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Spilt Milk | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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