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Under the wan October sun, Budapest had the appearance of a city ravaged by a full-scale war. The streets were choked by rubble and glass, dangling ends of streetcar cables and the uprooted cobblestones and raveled steel of barricades. The air was full of the fine, powdery dust of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Five Days of Freedom | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Surging down Stalin's Boulevard, mounting the marble base of the statue, they flung ropes around Stalin's neck, but the old dictator stood fast. Then a group of workers appeared bearing ladders, cables and acetylene torches. Melting through the metal knees, they brought the statue crashing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: When the Earth Moved | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Crackling Cables. What did the U.S. think of such talk, a reporter asked Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at his press conference. Replied Dulles: "My reaction ... is extremely favorable ... I had the feeling that developments in the Suez situation were moving thoughts somewhat in that direction, and, if so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Fundamental Difference | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Up to that point Dulles was on solid ground, for the European Defense Community in its various forms had long been a U.S. dream. But when a reporter led him into a discussion of the differences of opinion over Suez between the U.S. on the one side and Britain and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Fundamental Difference | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

¶ Ninety-six cameras will be deployed in Chicago and San Francisco to bring the big show (at a cost of $17 million) to a forecast 120 million people-the biggest mass audience in history (twice the number that saw the 1952 convention, twelve times the 1948 show). ¶ New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 120 Million Audience | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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