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In the midst of the defense battle, Dwight Eisenhower last week stood under some of the sharpest crossfire of personal attack since he stepped into the presidency. Congressional investigators prodded generals and admirals into admitting that they wanted more money than Ike's $41 billion military budget allows. Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Crossfire | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

As a Moravia heroine, she is certain to be vapid, gross, pettily cruel and, when she stops to think about it, unhappy. Her lover is probably an idle young aristocrat, just bright enough to be deeply and passionately bored. Naturally, they despise each other. Moravia has created these characters dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spaces Between | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

The U.N. bureaucracy refused to forgive Bang-Jensen even in death, belittled his fight over the list of Hungarian witnesses as the obsession of an unstable crank. But if Bang-Jensen was obsessed, it was a magnificent obsession.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Magnificent Obsession | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

"Khoroshy Chelovek." In the last five years of the Fourth Republic, while other diplomats in Paris tended to write off the Hermit of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Vinogradov told his staff, "Some day he will be back." On eight different occasions, he sought out the general for private interviews, usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mon Gaulliste | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

The results could make a cardiac case out of a cuttlefish. In Rock du Coeur, the heart thuds (behind an electric guitar, a clavichord and drums) like a bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Song in My Heart | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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