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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: March 1st, 1954 | Vol. LXIII, No. 9 | U.S. image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Back to the vault # March 1, 1954 | Vol. LXIII No. 9March 1, 1954 | Vol. LXIII No. 9  Issue name March 1st, 1954 | Vol. LXIII, No. 9 | U.S. Issue date March 1, 1954 Location U.S. Related categories [Politics](/vault/subject/politics/) [Education](/vault/subject/education/) [Browse issue pages](/vault/issue/1954-03-01/page/1/)[Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents Others [THE NATION: Living Dangerously](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819473,00.html)[THE PRESIDENCY: Break](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819474,00.html)[THE CONGRESS: Fat-Free](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819475,00.html)[National Affairs: Small Hello](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819476,00.html)[National Affairs: Bilbo of the North](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819477,00.html)[INVESTIGATIONS: One Man's Army](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819478,00.html)[National Affairs: New Witness](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819479,00.html)[National Affairs: THE FIGHT FOR CONGRESS](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819480,00.html)[AGRICULTURE: Spuds to Spare](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819481,00.html)[National Affairs: Keep That in Mind](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819482,00.html)[ARMED FORCES: Home Guards?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819483,00.html)[THE ADMINISTRATION: More Bark, Less Bite](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819484,00.html)[RACES: Seven Months' War](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819485,00.html)[FRANCE: Agony Ahead](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819486,00.html)[BERLIN: End of a Conference](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819487,00.html)[AUSTRIA: Black Bands of Mourning](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819488,00.html)[GREAT BRITAIN: Atomic Guarantee](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819489,00.html)[Foreign News: Not Proven](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819490,00.html)[MIDDLE EAST: Spreading Security](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819491,00.html)[ITALY: Asking for Trouble](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819492,00.html)[INDO-CHINA: Question & Answer](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819493,00.html)[Foreign News: The 9 O'Clock Visitors](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819494,00.html)[CHINA: The New Empire Builders](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819495,00.html)[Foreign News: Where's Mao?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819496,00.html)[FORMOSA: Uncle Chen](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819497,00.html)[AUSTRALIA: Look Away](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819498,00.html)[THE PHILIPPINES: Out of the Jungle](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819499,00.html)[THE AMERICAS: What They Want](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819500,00.html)[The Hemisphere: Hi-Fi Fan from Texas](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819501,00.html)[BRAZIL: Just the Facts, Senhor](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819502,00.html)[ARGENTINA: Toward a Richer Language](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819503,00.html)[Science: H-Crater](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819511,00.html)[Science: A Better Eye](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819512,00.html)[Science: Deepest Divers](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819513,00.html)[Science: Oldest Life](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819514,00.html)[Medicine: Decision Reversed](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819505,00.html)[Medicine: New Disease](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819506,00.html)[Medicine: For Mice, Not Men](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819507,00.html)[The Press: New Republic Windfall](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819508,00.html)[The Press: Seven on the Aisle](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819509,00.html)[The Press: Labor v. Labor](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819510,00.html)[Religion: Finding of Heresy](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819537,00.html)[Religion: A Question of Authority](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819538,00.html)[Religion: The Inferno](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819539,00.html)[Sport: No. I Dukes](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819518,00.html)[Sport: Finland v. Russia](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819519,00.html)[Sport: Historic Heave](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819520,00.html)[STATE OF BUSINESS: A Question of Degree](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819527,00.html)[BUSINESS ABROAD: Turkey Opens the Door](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819528,00.html)[Time Clock, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819529,00.html)[RAILROADS: New Battle for Young](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819530,00.html)[CORPORATIONS: Shake-up for American Woolen](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819531,00.html)[IS It a Godsend or a Giveaway?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819532,00.html)[OIL: Nevada Strike](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819533,00.html)[UTILITIES: The Wrong Horse](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819534,00.html)[TRUCKING: By Land & by Sea](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819535,00.html)[GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819536,00.html)[Education: Unconquered Frontier](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819517,00.html)[Music: Basso's Problem](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819515,00.html)[Music: Hero from Long Branch](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819516,00.html)[Art: Complicated Situation](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819521,00.html)[Art: New Directions](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819522,00.html)[Art, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819523,00.html)[Art: More for the Met](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819524,00.html)[The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819525,00.html)[Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819540,00.html)[Cinema: Two from Britain](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819541,00.html)[Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819542,00.html)[Books: Killer in Cresap's Landing](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819543,00.html)[Books: A Constructive Radical](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819544,00.html)[Books: Hunter of Saurians](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819545,00.html)[Malevolence in a Coffeepot](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819546,00.html)[Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819547,00.html)[Milestones, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819526,00.html)[People, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819504,00.html)[A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819472,00.html)[Letters, Mar. 1, 1954](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819471,00.html) March 1st, 1954 | Vol. LXIII, No. 9 | U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"March 1st, 1954 | Vol. LXIII, No. 9 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/3564509/march-1st-1954-vol-lxiii-no-9-u-s/"}]}]} ```