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...kind of idea that makes him unpopular with the local Army general, the state governor and the boys in the corner saloon, who begin calling him an "Indian lover." Meanwhile, back on the reservation, black-eyed Tianay (Anne Bancroft), a squaw who is "much woman," moves in on Audie with the conviction that he is "much man." Rather stuffily, Audie refuses to prove it in their adobe cottage, explaining that he is already "pledged," and that at best a white man can handle only one wife at a time. But he does prove, in 88 minutes flat, that a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...geisha had hitched her fortunes to a falling star. Though Japan won the war, the peace terms were unpopular, and the press reviled Katsura and his "concubine." With rioters in the streets, O-Koi had the presence of mind to tack a FOR RENT sign on her house, and hid out in a back room. The lovers were reunited before Katsura's death, and O-Koi later entered a Buddhist nunnery, where she died after the end of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad Gay Ladies of Japan | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...that Ulbricht counts on the fact that Dahlem, who suffers from a heart ailment, appears to have aged considerably. But it remains a fact that Dahlem would be a natural choice for party leadership should the Russians try to reorganize East German Communism without unpopular Walter Ulbricht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Rehabilitated Rival | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Characteristically, Siles speaks of his problems as "four big battles"-against inflation, for increased production, against illiteracy, for national unity. He vows to undertake the unpopular measures that he considers necessary: freeze wages, cut out government subsidies, "insist on labor discipline" and "run the mines like a private business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Fighter to the Fore | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...East Germany, but stronger than it need be merely to act as a burglar alarm." This thinking also coincides with Radford's, but it dismays West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and NATO's retiring boss, General Alfred Gruenther. Adenauer has just bulled his own unpopular conscription bill through the German Parliament, and he let it be known at week's end that he was "extremely concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Kind of War? | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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