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"We will win!" chanted 4,600 teachers as they hit the picket line last week in New York City. Circling 267 schools, they crippled junior highs, left students staring at blank blackboards in unattended classrooms (surprisingly little disorder resulted). Cried happy kids: "Hold that line!" The first teachers' strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teachers' Strike | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

Even the politically beleaguered islands of Quemoy and Matsu began to float out of the center of U.S. debate and back to their rightful place in ambiguity along the China coast. The pollsters bustled across the U.S. like beaters on an African safari - and found themselves right where they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Thin Edge | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

For days Patrice Lumumba prowled the balcony of the Premier's residence, staring down at the U.N. troops that guarded it. "Neutralized" by Military Boss Joseph Mobutu and threatened with arrest by President Joseph Kasavubu, Lumumba commanded only the residence he lived in. Last week he decided to venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: A Night on the Town | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Brilliance & Temperament. In Jânio Quadros, Brazil got a curious blend of introvert and extravert, a man of wide learning whose political thought borrows from Lincoln and Jefferson, who is a hardworking, conservative-minded public servant in office, yet who campaigns with a ward politician's gallus-snapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The New President | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

As Alma finally discovers how little she had really known the boy who grew up in her house, another telegram confirms his death in battle. "I only loved him," she mourns. "I never knew him." But to love someone is enough. Mrs. Barrington tells her, "that's all we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ohio Nights | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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