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...Sunday field that seemed all ends and no middle-one that ranged from the cerebral approach of the Sunday Times to the News of the World, with an appeal that is blatantly visceral. At sight of the upstart Telegraph, a paper advertised as being neither "weightier than you wanted" nor "more frivolous than you fancied,'' the frivolous Sunday sheets smiled indulgently. The Sunday Times could not resist predicting that the newcomer might prove useful as a primer for fledgling intellectuals "not yet quite up to the high cultural and political standards which the Sunday Times characteristically maintains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News on Sunday | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

Downrange, to the north of Grand Bahama Island, was an even weightier deployment. Circling near the calculated impact area of the Mercury capsule, Lake Champlain bristled with helicopters, and a flotilla of six destroyers strung out along the range. Watching the range with sharp electronic eyes were the swarming radars of Cape Canaveral, and high overhead soared monstrous aircraft burdened with more radars. Neither money, men nor equipment had been spared to protect the life of U.S. Astronaut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Freedom's Flight | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Mail to Democratic National Headquarters has run nearly 100 to 1 against the appointment of Bobby Kennedy as Attorney General, while weightier Cabinet choices, e.g., Dean Rusk for Secretary of State, have hardly drawn a postcard of comment either way. Bobby has been told. He will take great pains to watch his step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capital Notes: Behind the Scenes | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...With no weightier weapon than the press communiqué, Laos' rattled politicians managed to convince the world last week that the brink of war was near. "Foreign forces of North Viet Nam have attacked." cried the Laotians. "An estimated strength of six battalions." Next day Information Minister Bouavan Norasingh announced dramatically that the northern provincial capital of Phongsaly had just fallen, though "our troops fought to the last bullet." Who had captured Phongsaly? Bouavan stared at the ceiling for a moment and answered: "The Viet Minh and the Chinese Communists." With no way of knowing what was actually going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Partially False Alarm | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal to the nation as a whole. Last week, as the biggest union of all-the powerful (1,300,000 members) Transport and General Workers-met for its biennial conference on the Isle of Man, Gaitskell's problems seemed weightier than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIALISTS: Britain: Gaitskell Wins | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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