Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotlight. In the spotlight, too, were the school-integration drama's leading characters, two of them subjects of recent TIME covers. Appearing as petitioner before the Supreme Court on behalf of the Negro schoolchildren was the N.A.A.C.P.'s Thurgood Marshall (TIME, Sept. 19, 1955), presenting his argument for resuming integration in Little Rock in almost hushed tones. In Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (TIME, Sept. 23, 1957), cloaked in the power and authority of his recent nomination and assured election to a third term, got from his loyal legislature the power to continue segregation. For stories on the historic...
...guests, privately primed by Milton to present the negative side, forgot their duty. Then Milton stood up. "I was supposed to summarize this discussion," said he. "But since the opinion is unanimous, there is nothing to summarize. Therefore I am going to state both sides of the argument." He did just that-and later, in private talks with Dwight, he could throw his influence on the affirmative side, secure in the knowledge that Ike had been made aware of the negative...
Desperate to put down the local alarm, authorities in Rio insisted that there was no danger in Brazil but plenty in the U.S. where hormone fattening is standard practice. Trouble with this argument: U.S. authorities have not turned up a single proven case of enough hormone getting through to have any detectable effect. Last week Director Jayme Lins de Almeida of the Brazilian government's Institute of Animal Biology announced that he was starting "rigorous official experiments" to find out who is right...
...laboratory technician. By 1946 he had become Cadillac's general manager, had also helped develop the gas-saving high-compression engine that boosted sales and laid to rest an old joke about the gas-eating Caddy.† Gordon likes to test his own products himself. Once, during an argument with another G.M. executive in Colorado, where the corporation has a test track, he hustled out of his hotel at 2 a.m. and test-drove a Cadillac up Pikes Peak to settle a dispute over its transmission...
Philip Morris (Parliament, Marlboro) and Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold) test all cigarettes down to a bare inch of butt. Other companies criticize this system because it produces higher tar yields for longer cigarettes. Another argument rages over what to report. American Tobacco measures "total solids" in smoke. Competitors have found that "solids" include tar, nicotine and some moisture; thus the advantage goes to American Tobacco's Hit Parade brand, whose tissue-paper-like filter absorbs more moisture than competing cellulose acetate filters. Hit Parade also claims "over 400,000 filter traps"; Lorillard says it could claim millions of traps...