Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, and to get a pictorial sneak preview of the new models, see BUSINESS, Fast Getaway. DIPLOMATS have negotiated about it, politicians have exploited it, editorialists have pondered it. But what is really happening on Quemoy? TIME'S Jim Bell, who has been there before, went back last week on the first plane that would take him and filed a moving report. See FOREIGN NEWS, Quemoy: Autumn Nightmare...
...Base in Georgia; Jo Robert Persons, one of the nation's leading life-insurance salesmen until his death in 1946, and the Rev. Frank Stanford Persons II, 71, an Episcopalian who carried the Gospel to moonshiners in Virginia, coal miners in Pennsylvania, orange pickers in Cuba, is now back in Alabama...
...Back for another tilt at four-term Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 55, and his well-greased Democratic machine is Providence Attorney Christopher Del Sesto, 51, who almost turned the trick two years ago. After all votes were counted in 1956, Del Sesto was proclaimed winner by a hair-427 votes-only to have the victory torn from his hands by a ruling from the state Supreme Court invalidating 4,954 absentee and shut-in votes. Having sneaked to a fourth term through this legal loophole, Denny Roberts is now plagued by party dissidence and public weariness with his erratic...
...each on tedious schedule, they came home from school or work. ABC's American Bandstand, the 4 p.m. teen-age dance show, had been on a couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired brother, 14-year-old Bobby, slammed the front screen door, stomped familiarly back through the kitchen into the den. Resting the old gun on the TV, Diana took aim and shot him through the forehead, dropping him without a murmur amidst his scattered books...
Irwin Shaw has taken Patate from the French of Marcel Achard, and he would be well advised to put it back. As a laugh show, this "New Comedy" suffers from a paucity of laughs. And since the script is not a gimmick adorned by gags, in the fashion of most American comedies, but a closely plotted dramatic whole, there seems very little possibility of its being rewritten and rescued by skillful gagsmithing...