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...Fatal Flaw. The Gray Commission came up with a plan aimed at starving integration to death. It proposed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: The Gravest Crisis | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...mattered little that BB's movie, En Cas de Malheur (In Case of Emergency), a Georges Simenon story about a successful lawyer's fatal obsession with a young slut failed to win (and that Japans "Rickshaw Man" did). A traveling movie fan named Elsa Maxwell just about guaranteed Malheur's American triumph by announcing: "Bardot is a nothing, a sexual little kitten of no importance. She has no talent except for undressing onscreen. This is a very bad thing for American youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BB in Venice | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...year-old salesman tried vainly to keep his wife from returning to work after her recovery from a perforated duodenal ulcer. He feared a fatal relapse; he also felt guilt that his own providing was insufficient. Eight hours after she went back to work, he came down with infectious mononucleosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mind v. Body | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...satellites was unexpected, but most of it seems of low energy, and protection should be possible. Agreeing, Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the belt is probably only several earth-diameters wide at most, not enough for a fatal radiation dose during a flight of several hours through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Off into Space | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...known as Lolita. She is his culture-vulture landlady's daughter in a small New England town where Humbert has holed up to do some literary work. The girl is just a gum-chewing, Coke-filled, comic-book-educated sub-teen-ager -but she is Humbert's fatal love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the End of Night | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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