Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BILL GRAVES Levittown...
...Bill. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., while holding their annual convention at the Galt Ocean Mile Hotel, the 200 members of the Florida Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous consumed 449 gallons of coffee in three days, polished off another 35 gallons at a single banquet...
...thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played out on the Senate floor, in cloakrooms, at black-tie dinners, in the seats at Griffith Stadium. As written by Bill Bowen and edited by Champ Clark, see the cover story on The Strauss Affair...
...Cowardly Attempt." But anyone who knew anything about Wayne Morse's record for political consistency could have made an odds-on bet that his Democratic honeymoon would not last forever. Sure enough, he soon began feuding with Richard Neuberger. In 1957 Neuberger voted for a civil rights bill that Morse had dismissed as meaningless. Later, Neuberger committed the sin of sponsoring a trivial bill to turn over some public lands to the town of Roseburg, Ore.-without consulting Wayne Morse. That did it. Morse killed the bill, which required unanimous Senate consent. There followed a truly remarkable exchange...
...full import of Fidel Castro's dream of a "classless" Cuba began sinking in last week, a wave of mass meetings and angry proclamations swept the island. The immediate cause of the anger was Castro's first spread-the-wealth scheme: his land-reform bill (TIME, June 1) that became law last week. The result was the return of political debate after a hiatus of five months, and the sudden birth of outspoken opposition to the still numerically strong supporters of Castro...