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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the U.S. now holds that its 1946 agreement was valid for that year only. Even though many Western European countries disagree, their real objection has been the uncompromising and adamant nature of the U.S. stand. As one delegate complained, "There was so much arm-twisting you could hear screams from behind every potted palm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pyrrhic Victory | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

...more than 25 minutes of the first half, those energetic cheerleaders seemed the best the Army could produce. Navy's Quarterback George Welsh, with his deadly pitching arm and his farflung halfbacks, was just too much. With deceptive ease, the Middies caught the opening kick-off and steamed 76 yds. for the first score of the game. It hardly seemed to matter that the extra-point kick was wide. Whenever Welsh dropped back to pass, the Navy line gave him plenty of time. And he was almost always on target. When the Army secondary dropped back to cover. Welsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Infantry Tactics | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Linwood C. Roger Sr. about the whereabouts of their old friend Midge Meyer, city-jail inmates were relieved to learn that Meyer had just been sentenced to his 106th term for drunkenness, and that he had been away so long only because he had been hospitalized with a broken arm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...started across the carpeted floor. He was stopped by a thinly bearded man who drew a revolver and shouted: "Why are there so many prostitutes in the city?" The bearded man fired a single shot, but one of Ala's bodyguards, with quick presence of mind, jolted his arm just in time, and the shot went wide. As the assailant grappled with the bodyguards, he managed to get one hand free, and to hit Ala on the back of the head with the revolver before he was dragged away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Dangerous Mosque | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Just published is the first volume of a new 55-volume edition of Luther's works in flexible, modern English. Prepared jointly by St. Louis' Concordia Publishing House and Philadelphia's Muhlenberg Press, an arm of the United Lutheran Church in America, the new Luther will range the whole gamut of the reformer's work. Says Washington-born Theologian Helmut T. Lehmann, 41, who is in charge of the project: "We're not aiming this series at scholars. They can go to the original. This edition is intended for the searching layman, the pastor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Luther in English | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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