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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey came onstage last to charm the delegates out of their chairs with a whiplash, give-'em-hell attack on the Eisenhower Administration's "inertia and catering to specially privileged Republicans." His speech drew 40 rounds of applause, and as it ended, 3,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three for the Show | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Out of this process of self-enrichment, compounded of many handshakes and conversations, will come Rockefeller's shrewd assessment of his chances, according to his close friends. Like a riverboat gambler, willing to risk all if the odds are right but unwilling to plunge recklessly, in the months ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Rooky's Giant Step | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

"Certainly all that I hear, see and feel will go into the decision-making process, will go into determining what I regard as the right course. I don't lay down any framework. I judge a course of action by all the circumstances prevailing at the time a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Rooky's Giant Step | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

THE greatest battle in the history of naval warfare, which destroyed the Japanese fleet and swept clear the sea roads to the Philippines and Tokyo, raged across 500,000 square miles of churned and bloodied Western Pacific Ocean 15 years ago this week. This was the Battle for Leyte Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GREATEST & LAST BATTLE OF A NAVAL ERA | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Alerted by the submarines' contact reports, Bull Halsey ordered his carriers to launch air strikes against Kurita'and opened the Battle of Sibuyan Sea on Oct. 24. In all, Halsey's planes made 259 sorties, sinking battleship Musashi, putting heavy cruiser Myoko out of action and damaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GREATEST & LAST BATTLE OF A NAVAL ERA | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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