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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their homes to raise Raboski's $15,000 bail, drafted a clemency appeal to California's Governor Earl Warren. "We plan to do everything we can to stand back of him," said the Rev. Milan Swasko, pastor of the local Lutheran church. "This community can't afford to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Good Citizen | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

While Kem hopes to give oldsters good housing at prices they can afford, he admits that he is not entirely altruistic. If all the houses are sold, Senior Estates will gross a thumping $567,500 on a $170,000 investment. It will also lease out (on a profit-sharing basis) the town's stores, restaurant and movie house. Says Kem: "It's a pretty good deal all the way around. We might make a million bucks being philanthropists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Old Folks at Home | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...anybody. He was a bandit for work." But along about last Christmas, Peter Akulonis' inner fiber began to fray and shrivel under the pressures and strains of life. At lunch he sat apart, alone and unhappy. When a friend bought a new car, he asked: "How can you afford that when I drive a pile of junk? All I do is work and go home. . . I'm not getting anything out of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Good Man | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...followers. Moreover, a number of social reforms--in housing, power, and health--have to stew while a defense establishment is kept up. But dollar for dollar it is worth it. For the temporary relief it would give them from anxicty and taxation, America and the West cannot afford to abandon the carefully planned policy of strength that is still the best hope for real peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perils of Peace | 4/21/1953 | See Source »

...must be taken, according to Lindsley, is the development of medicine that will counteract the fear following irradiation. Just as important, is the establishment of a predictive correlation between the severity of the anxiety in the first stage, and the severity of the clinical stage. Such a development would afford a means for quick and efficient diagnosis of radiation sickness, and would clear the way for its prompt treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tests Show Radiation Causes Abnormal Fear | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

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