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¶ Sent his annual report to Congress on U.S. participation in the U.N., credited the world organization with "solid achievements" during 1957. After Russia charged that the U.S. was urging Turkey to attack Syria, wrote the President, the U.N. Assembly's open discussion "demonstrated to the world that Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Open-Ear Policy | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Present color service contracts cost a discouraging $99.50 for the first year, $119 for the second. (Either annual outlay will buy a portable black-and-white set.) Color set owners must acclimate themselves to times when faces suddenly go green or saffron, figures bloom with fluorescence, and backgrounds become crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Chasing the Rainbow | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

During this maneuver, the normal control surfaces do not work because there is no flow of air over them, so their job is done by rotating compressed air nozzles. One of them in the tail controls pitch. Two more, one on each wing tip, take care of roll and yaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deflected Thrust | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

FRANCE The Providential Man Out of the kaleidoscopic confusion of events in France emerged two arresting facts. In his first seven days in power Charles de Gaulle had managed to give his country firmer government than it had known in the preceding seven years. And in the process the stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Providential Man | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

But even before Callas quit, Tebaldi made a surprising maneuver: she announced that she would not sing at La Scala without Callas. "I sing only for artistic reasons; it is not my custom to sing against anybody," she said. Groaned Manager Ghiringhelli: "This is a stab in the back." To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Exit La Callas | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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