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...root of the whole trouble lies in the misuse of money. Money is becoming so unstable that not only the people of the U.S. but most of the people of the free world are losing their faith in it. When faith in our money is gone, chaos results, and woe betide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...their speed, altitude and identity. Some of the automatons create jobs and whole industries-but also the immediate problem of displaced workmen and the long-run challenge of how the U.S. can use a new leisure. The CBS show struck a hopeful balance on whether automation is "weal or woe," even managed to find some humor in both the men and the machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...dogma of his masters, Stalin refused to recognize that prostitution flourished in the Soviet Union (he, says a recent Communist commentator, "professed the famous principle that if the facts do not conform to the thesis, it is the facts and not the thesis that are to blame-and woe to those who point out the facts"). When caught, Soviet prostitutes are sometimes sent to prison camps, but no laws or regulations exist under which the embarrassing problem can be rationally dealt with. Said Trud last February: "Are these women not breaking a basic law of Socialism, 'He who does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SATELLITES: Oldest Profession | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Connor clocked such a fast first run that Bibbia made a dangerous mistake trying to catch up and came to woe at Shuttlecock. With Bibbia disqualified, Doug Connor was an easy winner and once more the undisputed champion of Cresta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Moritz Sleigh Ride | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...insist on comfortable surroundings. Any distress at last week's off-Broadway opening of August Strindberg's Easter was caused by the play and the production, not by the theater. To come off at all, the palely symbolic, poorly translated Easter-which creates joy out of the woe of a bedeviled Swedish family in the period from Maundy Thursday to Easter-needs not only sensitive acting but a unified acting style. Instead, Producer-Director David Ross came up with little good acting and no acting style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bargain-Basement Theater | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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