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...apartment buildings, crushed the second floor of a four-family house, ripped off part of the roof of a sports arena, uprooted trees. It mangled a Ferris wheel in an amusement park, then slanted northeast-straight into the city's center. There, in a 3-sq.-mi. sector, years ago St. Louis' "silk stocking'' district, the twister changed its swath-cutting pattern and skip-bombed its havoc: it ripped up some of the same buildings that were wrecked in the St. Louis tornado of 1927 (which killed 78), dropped at random like a cleaver in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Five Minutes of Havoc | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Soviet citizen died, and the Devil gave him a choice of going to the Communist or the capitalist Hell. Unhesitatingly he chose the Communist "because there is certain to be a fuel shortage in that sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SOVIET JOKES | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

East German control over the present eastern sector of Berlin does not necessarily doom the western sector. While the NATO allies must not be deluded by free-city offers, they could deal with East German border guards as agents of the Soviet troops who keep the lid on in the Democratic Republic. If these East German authorities were to attempt to cut off West Berlin then it seems the United States has rightly committed itself to preserve the sector's free status, no matter what the cost. Berlin is no rock off the China coast; it is an actual incubator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Future of Germany | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...announced last week that it would pay up to 36% higher prices for compulsory livestock deliveries. But the government's prices are still far below the free market prices. Gomulka is caught in a dilemma: he cannot go on as a leader of a socialist country whose farm sector is only 1% socialist; yet every time he breathes too strongly in the socialist direction, the peasantry resists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: 1% Socialism | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Berlin State Opera and the vigorously competing West Berlin Municipal Opera. In a kind of operatic cold war, Felsenstein's now classic productions of Carmen, Tales of Hoffmann, The Bartered Bride attract as many operagoers from West Berlin (where Fetsenstein lives for maximum comfort) as from the Eastern sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two Faces of Turandot | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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