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Loot Song. In Sydney, Australia, police, after finding a traffic summons with his name and address on it inside a burglarized garage, nabbed Brian William Quinn, 22, who pleaded guilty to the robbery, explained: "I must have dropped the summons when I took out my handkerchief to wipe off my fingerprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...fighting. Our army has never been as strong. We are in a position to take a step forward to a ceasefire. We want to find a humane solution to this war. But while it is true that De Gaulle has not mentioned integration, the French army continues to wipe out villages and kill Algerians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: The Reluctant Rebel | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Though Britain refused to go along with Canada's demand for full convertibility of the pound, it did promise to wipe out restrictions on dollar-area newsprint, salmon, farm machinery. Canada in turn refused New Zealand's plea to cut down trade-inhibiting farm subsidies, but agreed to keep down tariff barriers against lamb and mutton, automobiles and aircraft. For the Commonwealth's smaller, less developed partners, Canada led a big power move to increase development aid, pour more money into the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Colombo Plan to speed progress in Asia and Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Around the World by Cable | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...this "Know-Nothing revolt," writes Schlesinger, "is to wipe out the transformation wrought in the Democratic Party by Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal and to recreate something like the Democratic Party of the twenties." Today's Democratic leaders "forget that the Democratic Party has been nationally successful only as a great coalition in which intellectuals play a central role," forget also that "the great natural resource of the Democratic Party is brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Know-Nothing Revolt? | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Contempt for most classroom cinema is justified, but four new color films on chemistry-two for high schools and two, still in production, for advanced college study-should do much to wipe it out. The producer is Hollywood Film Maker John Sutherland, who has reeled off award-winning documentaries, among them the 1954 cancer film, Horizons of Hope, as well as binsful of eye-scratching TV commercials and industrial gong beaters. Sutherland's chemistry films, his first purely educational projects, are concentrated (about 15 minutes) doses of basic science, without musical scores or might-of-industry hoopla. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Films that Teach | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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