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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO's Continental members, France is the only one that has refused Norstad authority to send its planes into immediate action in event of a Soviet attack, the only one that has refused to hook into the Europe-wide air-warning-and-command net that NATO hopes to finish building by 1961. (Given the small size of Western Europe-Paris lies only 350 miles from the Communist frontier of East Germany-this is roughly like refusing to agree to coordinated air defense of Chicago and Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: The Indispensable Argument | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Italy's Nobel Prizewinning Poet Salvatore Quasimodo (TIME. Dec. 21) has had tall, blonde, sad-eyed Liliana Fiandra, 24, who proved her devotion to Leftist Quasimodo last year when at her own expense she rushed to Moscow to be at his bedside after he had a mild heart attack. But when Quasimodo, 58, took Liliana to Stockholm with him earlier this month for the Nobel ceremonies, Maria, 44, apparently viewed it as the last straw. Last week, taking a short recess from her dancing school, she was threatening a legal separation (Italy doesn't go in much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Mankowitz' affectionate attack on the cheerfully amoral operators who are London's buccaneers of bric-a-brac, the antique dealers of Portobello Road, sparkled with the vitality of the underworld he has taken for his own. "One specializes in the people nearest one's personal archetype," says Author Mankowitz, "dealers, agents, toughies, whores, pimps, gamblers, all freelances like myself-people who work in a mètier, vestiges of primitive capitalism. These are my people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: More English Than the English? | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...generations of heart-disease victims, the insurance industry is catching up with newer medical thinking: these patients are not necessarily such bad risks as they were once rated. But the penalty premiums are still steep: a man of 50 who has done well for 13 months after a heart attack must pay annually $100 to $125 per $1,000 of insurance as against $40 for a man in full health. The penalty drops with longevity: at 60, he may be paying only $15 to $20 additional. Last week, physicians for the Equitable Life Assurance Society listed four steps that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Premiums & Benefits | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...HOUSE OF INTELLECT, by Jacques Barzun. An uneven but provocative attack on mass culture and mass education, in the name of old-fashioned discipline and logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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