Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vest Point. In Port Washington, Wis., when John Jushka sent out his Irish setter on the first day of its training as a retriever, the dog came back with a wallet containing...
...second function of a newsmagazine is to know what the news means-and this requires not off-the-cuff punditry but the gathering of more news. Last week TIME correspondents who had covered the campaign went back on the road, dug deep into the precinct facts which gave meaning to Election Year 1958. Thus TIME'S editors could: ¶ Interpret the true significance of two Democrats who got drowned in an otherwise all-Democratic tide in Massachusetts, see THE NATION, Moderate Mandate. ¶ Show how the least publicized of all the elections might have the longest-lasting national effect...
...another sense that the presidential political weakness was even more hurtful to Republicans. In fact, Dwight Eisenhower wrote a good, constructive record in 1958. Yet the widespread impression remained of a dispirited, drifting Administration. That impression first took real form back in 1957, when Ike hemmed, hawed and refused to crack down on Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's forecasts of a hair-curling depression. It persisted in 1958, when the President delayed for months getting rid of Sherman Adams because "I need him." Again, even while Ike fought wisely and successfully at bringing the U.S. out of recession without...
...squad who has received the most publicity is, of course, Charlie Ravenel. One of his teammates, a junior quarterback, admitted that while Charlie is not yet an accomplished passer, he merits most of the praise he receives. "He takes it all very modestly," the back said. "He handles himself very well and hasn't yet stepped on anyone's toes...
...nature, the group operates in a flexible, vague way. Once an applicant gets over the initial hurdle of Group IV, junior standing, and honor grades in his field, he arranges his schedule and program directly with the school principal or department head and with his classroom teacher. He reports back to HUT only occasionally...