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Tunisia and Ceylon had already drafted a resolution embodying Hammarskjold's second alternative, but had coupled with it a demand that Belgium withdraw its troops from Katanga. The U.S.-with European fires to watch as well-was reluctant to press harried Belgium too hard, but ready to go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Challenge to Authority | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Considering the infuriating self-consciousness which is apparently indispensable to the manufacture of yearbooks, the editors of 323 have produced a strangely wishy-washy whitewash in their year-book's pages. This cultivated objectivity is laudable in an Associated Press dispatch, but it is not all which might be hoped...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: 323 | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

A stern taskmaster. Kiphuth demands all-out effort, is apt to roar at a swimmer dawdling through his paces: "If you want to take a bath, get a cake of soap." During a hopping exercise, the coach scowled scornfully at a boy who had twisted an ankle, barked: "Get up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Master of the Pool | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

It was a heartwarming experience to view the photographs of the Castro executions. Latin American politicos for the most part are graft-ridden, selfish individuals, and it is a good omen to see youth and virility in the figure of a man like Castro. He is justified in being irritated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

THE MIAMI HERALD: THE results yesterday rebuke, if they do not repudiate, the Eisenhower Administration. It has not balanced the budget or materially reduced expenditures. It has let a wishy-washy foreign policy lap to the shores of foreign war.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGEMENTS & PROPHECIES: THE ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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