Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...translation of an understandable, desirable U.S. foreign policy [Jan. 9] is a masterpiece of journalistic expression. When set against the background of urgency so aptly described in your story on the H-bomb [April 12, 1954], TIME shows consistent national leadership unmatched in modern newswriting...
...girl friend, is in a West Virginia prison for transporting a stolen car across state lines. A few hours before the execution last week, Hurbie's father went to Oklahoma City, pleaded vainly with the governor for Hurbie's life, blaming the boy's background. In order to make the trip, Hurbie Sr. had been released under police escort from the Paris, Texas jail, where he is awaiting trial for burglary...
...handle the bill on the floor, Johnson picked Oklahoma's amiable Senator Mike Monroney, at whom nobody ever gets mad. Backing Monroney was Arkansas' syrup-toned Senator William Fulbright, who specializes in charm. In the background was Oklahoma's heavy-fisted, wrath-kindling Senator Robert Kerr, longtime champion of the gas producers...
Morris draws a sharp line between his own abstractions, with recognizable objects looming out of the background, and the prevailing trend of Manhattan's abstract painters. To Morris, their delight in overall painted surfaces "is like looking into a window loaded with fascinating, kaleidoscopic objects. But in multiplying one area of excitement until it moves right off the canvas, they're not painting abstractions; they're just repeating details...
...result of his decision, one day last week Ed McCully, 28, was standing-with four other young Americans of similar background, age and motivation-on a sweltering riverbank at the Amazon's headwaters. Across the water they could see the green-hell jungle, where lurked the raw material of their mission: 2,000 members of the savage Auca Indian tribe...