Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replenishing the island's dwindling stocks of food, ammunition and medicine. Over the horizon, almost lost in the haze covering Formosa Strait, prowled Task Force 77 of the Seventh Fleet-the Sunday punch which the U.S. was holding back as long as the Communists refrained from all-out attack...
...Republicans by coming out foursquare for a right-to-work law. All other major Republican candidates frantically disavowed the Knowland gambit, and organized labor went out against Knowland as never before. But the most lasting effect of the Republican brawl was that it gave the Democrats the chance to attack a man of straightforward ways and impersonal honesty as a ruthless politician who had brutally shoved Goodie Knight aside to satisfy his own consuming ambitions. And who could better save California from such a tyrant than just plain...
...sail-white, but he is still the crafty helmsman and stern crew commander who, in half a century of competition, may well have won more races and honors than any other sailor in history (TIME cover, July 27, 1953). Competing in his first formal race since a 1956 heart attack, Investment Banker Shields worked up to part-time captain by stages-first by skippering her trial horse Nereus, then advising from Columbia's tender, finally plotting strategy from the boat's cockpit for regular Helmsman Briggs Cunningham, topflight yachtsman, longtime sports-car designer and racer (TIME cover, April...
Died. George Fingold, 49, attorney general of Massachusetts, Republican nominee for governor in the coming November elections; of a heart attack; in Concord, Mass. The new nominee is onetime Massachusetts house of representatives Speaker Charles Gibbons, 57, who irritated his colleagues last spring when he refused to become "a sacrificial lamb" by running for U.S. Senator against John Kennedy...
Died. Lady Beecham, 50, British concert pianist (Betty Humby), wife of Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 79; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires, where Sir Thomas was completing a concert series...