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Kelly's prose has tightened up a good deal since the appearance of The Poker Party; he has tamed his metaphors and come up with some fine images (his eyes bulged like tiny white balloons; the crown of the sun, burning into the top of the ridge like a match...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Advocate | 9/30/1960 | See Source »

Desirable Mates. First Mitchell and Martin read from a photostat of a statement that they had left behind in a Laurel, Md. safe-deposit box-a maneuver designed to prove that they had made up their minds well out of reach of Russian brainwashing. They had "sought citizenship in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR: Traitors' Day in Moscow | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

The debate was as muddled as little Bill's maneuver. For the moderates, T.U.C. Secretary Sir Vincent Tewson uttered common-sense warnings: "Unilateral disarmament would break up the Western alliance. We won't achieve peace by trying to save our own skins." "There's no love or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Contracting Out | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

In effect, the maneuver would give the Soviets a legal right to interfere in hemisphere affairs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Time Bomb | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

Behind most of these cheers lay the sense of relief expressed by a British diplomat who asked, "Can you imagine what the situation would be in the Congo now if it had not been for the U.N. ?" and promptly answered himself: "Intervention by the two superpowers and a dangerous clash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Quiet Man in a Hot Spot | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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