Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criterion for being on the cover was, and has always been, that they were news. After the Willy Brandt cover (May 25), the Berliner Zeitung in East Berlin said sarcastically that to be on TIME'S cover is "a high honor generally reserved only for faithful servants of American bank and stock-market barons." Quicker than anyone could say verdammte Lüge, the USIS put up a window display in West Berlin (see cut) that told the Germans, including the thousands of East Berliners who shop there, what all except Communists have known for a long time...
Evolution v. Revolution. Next day the President flew to Atlantic City to address the American Medical Association, warned the medical profession against contributing to inflation with bloated fees (see MEDICINE), gave a medical twist to his pleas for a balanced budget: "Habitual violation of a balanced diet can lead to ruined health; deliberately to unbalance the federal budget in time of huge indebtedness and rapidly increasing prosperity can bring about an enfeebled economy...
From Watkins to Barenblatt. In 1957, the Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 against the contempt-of-Congress conviction of John Watkins, onetime official of the Red-led Farm Equipment Workers International Union, who had refused to answer House un-American Activities Committee questions about Communism. The court's opinion, written by Chief Justice Warren, included a scathing denunciation of congressional investigative activities; critics of the opinion argued that in trying to put a rein on congressional investigators, the court instead had come up with a noose...
...Gaulle's argument has more to it than his mystic yearning for national grandeur. He believes that the Anglo-American nuclear domination of NATO is inducing in Western Europeans a "suicidal" lack of interest in their own defense. Convinced that "French soldiers fight best under the French flag," De Gaulle also opposes the present concept of "integrated" NATO forces, prefers a World War II-style "cooperative alliance," and asks what would become of Western European nations without nuclear weapons if the day came when it did not serve U.S. and British interests to use the nuclear deterrent in local...
...sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls.'' says New Jersey State Agriculture Secretary Phillip Alampi. ''but the poultry farmer, particularly in New Jersey, is the dead-end kid of American agriculture...