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Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*One of the more successful efforts to boost a western out of the wagon ruts of mediocrity. Rerun of old (70) Movie Villain Sessue Hayakawa's magnificent failure to cross the plains as a sword-swinging samurai (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...Niehans asks no fee from ruling princes. But here there is another and more tangible "response to treatment." In his mansion is a priceless silk carpet, 30 ft. square, the gift of an Oriental potentate. The Imam of Yemen gave him a ritual sword in a jewel-studded gold scabbard. In the immense living room are several old masters, including a Van Dyck and a Durer. Most of Dr. Niehans' colleagues are still unconvinced, but his patients appear to be grateful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Lamb | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Minutes later, Dominguin's No. 1 rival was out on the sand displaying his own classic style with sword and cape. Young Antonio Ordonez, 27, moved his bull closer and closer with dangerous, kneeling rodillazos. Finally the animal was slowed to a befuddled walk, drawn to the muleta as though hypnotized. Up in the stands, Ordoñez' aficionados shouted: "Si, tú el primero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: iQui | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Pocket Rocket. Waddling happily to the rostrum of the Kremlin's marble-walled Sverdlov Hall, he greeted reporters with a grin as broad as the arc of a peasant's scythe. Even his normally glum interpreters, press officers and sword-bearers were smilingly cordial. For questioners, Khrushchev had a full armory of chuckles, solemnities and playful jabs. Did he expect to address Congress? "I do not know whether the U.S. Congressmen want to listen to me . . ." When the A.P.'s Preston Grover asked if Eisenhower would be invited to visit Soviet missile bases, Khrushchev turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Serfs Are Pleased | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Though I am here a stranger and he the highest citizen, yet I shall remain and he shall depart." In 1492 Lorenzo was dead. Echoing in the ears of the impressed Florentines was the preacher's reiterated warning: "Ecce gladius Domini super terram, cito et velociter [Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sword of God | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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