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So long as it takes two to make a deal, and four to make a peace treaty, Russia's cynicism was justified. Khrushchev wanted only a summit: Eisenhower agreed that Khrushchev ''is the only man who has ... the authority to negotiate." The proxies, their homework done, gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: What's the Use? | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Embezzled Heaven (Rhombus-Film; Louis de Rochemont) is a reasonably loyal German adaptation, dubbed in English, of the 1940 bestseller in which Franz (The Song of Bernadette) Werfel proposed a parable of modern man's fatal confusion, as he saw it, of the material and the spiritual worlds. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Of all the arms of Communist power in Iraq, none is more effective than the People's Court, which the Reds have virtually converted into an independent arm of government through which they focus pressure on Kassem. Presided over by Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Dissembler | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

But like Adam's apple, Wesley's fig has an unforeseen side effect: it is an aphrodisiac. The late naughty-witted Thorne (Turnabout) Smith might have fashioned some of the priapic victories that follow. Countesses, nurses and simple country girls are figtimized. When the secret gets out, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light & Impolite | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Mirrored in the watchful faces of the gathering Communist clan was the realization that the 21st Party Congress could well prove as momentous as the 20th Congress three years ago. at which Khrushchev tearfully and historically denounced Stalin. For weeks past, ominous hints have been gathering that Khrushchev might use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: After Mikoyan | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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