Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...startling statistic compiled by Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey (TIME, Aug. 24) that 50% of U.S. males have some homosexual contact in their lives does not prove them sexually abnormal. In the great majority of cases, the contact is slight and limited to one or a few occasions during childish exploration in a strange, new world. Parents who recognize this will not make the mistake of exaggerating the importance of the event. Then, most likely, the fancy will pass without more...
Looking at their heavy surplus four months ago, U.S. wheat farmers voted to let the government set strict quotas on their 1954 crop (TIME, Aug. 24). Last week it was the cotton farmer's turn to vote on acceptance of quotas and 90% parity, or reject them and get only a 50% parity price prop. The result: a record 94% vote for quotas and price props, well over the two-thirds needed...
From Here to Eternity (Columbia). James Jones's novel about the peacetime Army, sweated down to a fine, muscular picture; with Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra (TIME, Aug...
...Cruel Sea (Universal-International). Dark war days in the North Atlantic, darkly remembered (TIME, Aug...
From Here to Eternity. James Jones's novel about life in the peacetime Army, compressed into a hard, tensely acted movie (TIME, Aug...