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...agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Anchor for Asia | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Keep Fighting. Thus last week a cowardly attack was repeated in Detroit almost to the last detail. Thirteen months before, an assassin had fired a shotgun through a kitchen window in the home of Vic's elder brother Walter, and shot down the cocky, redheaded president of U.A.W. Walter Reuther's right arm is still crippled from the blast that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Most station owners found cold comfort in being told that radio was doing a good job of nursing and fattening its own assassin. The nation's 50 TV stations (mostly supported by radio) lost $15 million in 1948. While it was being suckled by radio, TV was taking a larger & larger share of radio's advertising. Despite the record revenue for the industry as a whole, one out of every four radio stations showed a loss last year. Nearly half of the 340 stations licensed in 1948 failed to break even. Things looked even worse for 1949. Warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bedside Manner | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...year ago, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán fell to the pavement on Bogotá's Carrera Séptima, dead of an assassin's bullets. The death of Liberal Firebrand Gaitán touched off the bloody riots that Colombians now call el bogotanazo. To forestall possible trouble on the April 9 anniversary, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez forbade mass meetings that day. Liberal leaders promptly called the faithful to memorial services on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Anniversary | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin to his fate worse than death...

Author: By J. CHEEVER Loophole, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

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