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Conference Pitch. Night was falling as Chou and his six-man entourage arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. With him was Liu Shao-chi, China's President. In the flare of flashbulbs, Chou's face appeared hard and unyielding. Significantly, he was greeted by only half of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Era of Many Romes | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Richard III is, except for Hamlet the longest of all the plays; and it is, unlike Hamlet, repetitious, monochromatic, unyielding, and actually quite shallow. It does not leave enough unsaid; in fact, again and again we are told what is going to happen, we see it happen, and then we...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Richard III' Makes a Fine, Bloodthirsty Melodrama | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

Judge Brown had already framed his charge to the jury, explaining what choice of verdicts they had under Texas law. Court was recessed while defense and prosecution attorneys studied the charge. Before long, the defense was screaming about it. Tonahill told newsmen, "It's an instructed verdict of guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Death for Ruby | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

One of Carr's principal arguments in What Is History? is that a historian can be understood only by looking at his environment. He likes to explain his own unyielding optimism by pointing to his pre-World War I education. "We had a great sense of historical progress then. We...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: E.H. Carr | 2/15/1964 | See Source »

By this unyielding stand, Ben Willis confirmed himself as the symbol of the position that the job of the schools is education, not breaking down de facto segregation. In telegrams to the school board and by packing public meetings of the board, white homeowners backed Willis. Businessmen and educators chimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Integration: De Facto Superintendent | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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