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...Explorer whirled overhead, a sigh of relief that was almost audible swept the free world. AT LAST, proclaimed a banner headline in the Buenos Aires Herald, AN UNCLE SAMNIK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE AGE: The New Moon | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...small thing, says Director Clair. The good-for-nothing has discovered that he is good for something-if only to hide a criminal from the police. As he happily explains to his reluctant accomplice (Georges Brassens): "At last I'm useful." Ah yes, Director Clair seems to sigh, the forces of law and order do have such a difficult time-good is almost impossible to stamp out. But then, so is evil, and in the end the moralist acknowledges that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Professional labor leaders--in the middle of an Atlantic City convention--wiped their foreheads and returned to the bar. New York politicos mumbled a sigh and turned to their work. "Gee," said Theodore Loos in his subway cab to a lingering reporter, "wouldn't it have been a dandy...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

...oven," she tells him, "you open the door too soon, you ruin it." In the end, though, Iris bravely chucked the cad when she realized he was not returning her love, only her kisses, and, with what the script called "a fine, quiet steadiness," was called upon to sigh courageously: "I am born again." Though Iris was the kind of frothy pink lady that TV shakes up every day, Margaret gave it the sort of warm, simple-blonde-and-blue-eyed glow that the headier highballs of TV drama often lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...discount rate from 3½% to 3% by Federal Reserve Banks in New York, Richmond, Atlanta and St. Louis. The remaining eight districts were expected to follow soon. Next day the stock market reversed its bearish decline of recent weeks (see below), and U.S. businessmen everywhere breathed a sigh of relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Change in Policy | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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