Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene, on a chilly day last week, was an old sepia-toned photo come to life. In the background was "Old Abilene Town"-opera house, livery stable, chapel, railroad depot-all restored to preserve the flavor of the cattle-trail days of early Kansas. In the foreground on the lawn of the Eisenhower Museum were dignitaries, schoolchildren, townsfolk-10,000 people in all. Across the way, where soon would come the slam and crunch of bulldozers, was the site of the Eisenhower Presidential library; near by. the white clapboard house where Ike Eisenhower was reared...
...senior American officer, he tried to counter-act Nazi propaganda by teaching a course in American institutions and organizing a mock election. "It was very significant to note that the difference in the prisoners' ability to make something out of the experience was not social or economic background, but education." The prison camp marked the beginning, Barnes says, of his great interest in education...
Most ominous shift in the tide of battle came not long ago when Director Federico (La Strada) Fellini shot a long sequence for his new film La Dolce Vita in front of the Café de Paris. Last year he would have used Doney's for his background. But the management of Caffé Doney is not panicking. Surveying his tourist-crowded tables last week, a Doney manager said disdainfully: "When people ask us where the Café de Paris is, we tell them...
...effort, his lips muttering a kind of private stream-of-consciousness through which he tried to find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could it be that all or much of that picture had been sham? That was the most disturbing question raised by last week's Washington hearings on the scandal of the television quiz shows...
...Nothing Bothers Me." Little in Pitcher Sherry's background hinted that he would ever make the World Series, let alone allow just one run in 12⅔ innings for a startling earned-run average of .71. Son of a Los Angeles dry cleaner, Sherry was born with clubfeet, did not recover from corrective surgery until he was twelve. But Larry grimly pitched by the hour to Brother Norm (now a third-string catcher for the Dodgers), eventually developed enough speed to be a star at Fairfax High School. Signed by the Dodgers, Sherry looked like just another scatter-armed...