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Try the U.N. Western diplomats promptly skewered the Soviet maneuver for the impossible thing it was. The State Department noted that only a few weeks ago at Berlin, Molotov had lambasted NATO and introduced his pan-European pact idea with the specific proviso that the U.S. should be excluded except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: April Fool? | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

Those were the days of the "flying wedge," a V-shaped offense (now long outlawed) that cut through defenses like a bulldozer. Pudge devised the classic counter-maneuver: "As the wedge formed, I backed away to get a running start, put on full steam ahead, took off like a broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Oldtimer | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

No Seasickness. Within the cramping bounds of shortages, heavy taxation and debts, no modern British Chancellor, Tory or Laborite, has much room to maneuver. Many of the controls imposed by the Laborites were forced by shortages which would have driven Tories to the same restrictions; and many of Butler'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Tory | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

East Germany's Communist "sovereignty" will be equally unreal. The East German government, cracked a British Foreign Office man, "will now be completely free to follow the directives it receives from Moscow." Washington called the Soviet maneuver a "sheer façade"; Bonn termed it "a booby trap." Yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Pseudo-Sovereignty | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

High over California's Mojave Desert, The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard, in the U.S. for a royal look at aircraft plants and military planes, took over the controls of a TF-86 Sabre Jet trainer from a test pilot, sent the craft into a screaming dive and smashed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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