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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booming Britain his triumph buried the socialist dogma of the 59-year-old Labor Party as an effective political force. Under Konrad Adenauer, Man of the Year in 1953, the resurgent economic strength of free Germany posed such intolerable comparisons that Communism tripped from threat to entreaty in its attempt to reduce German influence. France's Charles de Gaulle, Man of the Year in 1958, set himself to the task of restoring French pride, tried to bind up the debilitating wounds of Algeria, chipped away at NATO's supranational foundations; but the problems raised by De Gaulle's France were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man of the Year | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...Diary of Anne Frank. A strongly affecting attempt by Director George Stevens to make film sense of the heartbreaking diaries of the young martyr of Amsterdam (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: BEST PICTURES OF 1959 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...Blows (French). Director François Truffaut has turned the story of a small boy's desperate attempt to escape from the heartsick world of his parents into a stunning metaphor for modern man trapped in the society he has fashioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Pillow Talk. The box-office champions of the 1958-59 season, Rock Hudson and Doris Day, are teamed in an attempt to present a sort of World Series of sex, with Comic Tony Randall stealing all the bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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