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...Congress to have his say about a proper attitude for the U.S. toward Latin America. "Peoples that are poor and without hope," he told a well-filled House chamber, "are not free peoples. A stagnant and impoverished country cannot uphold democratic institutions. On the contrary, it is fertile soil for anarchy and dictatorship." At the National Press Club he made his point again: "The United States cannot stand aloof from the fact that almost 200 million individuals live in poverty on our continent...
...case involved the Harte-Hanks Newspaper Group (eight newspapers in Texas), which in 1954 bought the daily Banner in Greenville (pop. 20,000), a northeast Texas county seat boasting the "blackest soil, whitest people." Harte-Hanks increased the size of the paper and its advertising staff, but could not show a profit. Meantime, the moneymaking, family-owned Greenville Herald, faced with this tougher competition, fell into the red. In 1956 the Herald, weakened by losses, was forced to sell out to Harte-Hanks. By the next year the merged Herald-Banner (circ. 8,694) was making money...
...packed away in his portfolio. Lunching on steak with members of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mikoyan waxed expansive on the Rapacki plan for neutralizing Germany, suggested that Russian and Western troops each withdraw 500 miles from Berlin. Such a retreat, leaving the Russians comfortably on their own soil, the U.S. uncomfortably somewhere west of Paris, had twice before been urged by the Russians, twice before been rejected by the West. Nonetheless, Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who had met Mikoyan during his headlined Kremlin visit (TIME, Dec. 15), thought Mikoyan showed "flexibility of attitude...
...McCoys, daguerreotypes of life on the farm, outrageously violate all soil-bank restrictions on hokum but provide some homely fun while they...
...when the central figures retire, the historians come to life. Frank Friedel, James MacGregor Burns, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. are just the first of what will probably be a long and voluble wave of commentators. Among these academic pioneers in the already furrowed soil, Schlesinger takes the top honors--for scope, for literary ability, and for insight...