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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strauss was a victim.of Senate Democrats' heaped-up frustration at their inability to use their 64-34 majority to achieve a Democratic record. He was also the victim of Clint Anderson's obsessive campaign against him (TIME, June 15). Nursing a violent dislike built up during his years as a member and chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Anderson, to collect anti-Strauss votes, drew on his personal popularity in the Senate, drummed up party loyalty, and cashed every IOU he had for past favors rendered fellow Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Sad Episode | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...declared that the methods Gandhi used against the British were not justified "when there is a remedy open according to law." The second reason for the about-face was practical. What had really shaken the Congress Party's nerve was a Communist threat that, unless the Kerala campaign was called off. well-disciplined Red mobs would launch similar assaults against Congress governments in India's other 13 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: About-Face in Kerala | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation." While the ambassador was making his pitch for fair play-which he would have got from the bulk of U.S. journalists without asking-the Soviet press was whipping up its severest attack since the Stalin era on life in the U.S. The new campaign was obviously the Soviet welcome to the six-week, $5,000,000 American National Exhibition that will open in Moscow on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fair Play | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Prime target of the campaign is U.S. unemployment, which Pravda claims is so severe that American streets are "typically" clogged with people queued up for charity because their unemployment compensation has run out. Wrote one Russian professor about an encounter in the heart of Manhattan. "I can almost see standing in front of me now a man of 35, unshaven, in a soiled, rumpled raincoat, hunched over, and in a whisper asking for only a cigarette." Pravda this month gleefully printed an Associated Press picture (see. cut) of the tattered family and the shack of a striking Kentucky coal miner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fair Play | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Behind the campaign was India's powerful Congress Party, joined by local Socialists and Moslem groups, all sharing a long list of grievances against the two-year-old Communist regime, including "antidemocratic activities" and "misappropriation of funds." The Roman Catholic Church, in this most Christian of India's 14 states, was also aroused by a new state law giving the Communist government increased control over private schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Gandhi Technique | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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