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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger generation is more tolerant than its parents: only 17% of those in the 21-to-39-year age group would not vote for a Catholic, though 31% of their elders (50 and older) would still refuse. But any Catholic presidential candidate must still start with a handicap of one voter out of every four against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Can a Catholic Win? | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Illiteracy in Liberia remains at 95%, only one-quarter of the school-age population is actually attending school, and there is still such a national weakness for corruption that the President himself signs all government vouchers for more than $100. But more progress has been made in the last 15 years than in the entire 122 that went before. At one Monrovia polling place last week, an election official wore a red. white and blue paper eyeshade with the motto: "Don't gamble, play it safe, vote Tubman." The country's answer at week's end: more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Old Pro | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...YORK, May 14--President Eisenhower proposed tonight that the federal government underwrite the cost of a $100 million research unit to help preserve America's freedom in the nuclear age...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Herter Reveals Plan for Peace; Ike Proposes Research Project | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...constantly surrounded, indeed, overpowered, by the overly protective products of the atomic age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

LONDON--Britain announced yesterday it intends to enter the space age by launching its own earth satellites...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: U.S.S.R. Deadlocks Summit Talks, Asks Seats for Czechs, Poles; 31 Killed in Viscount Explosion | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

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