Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That's Swell!" Within minutes President Eisenhower was flying back to the White House (Mamie returned by car later in the day). There, as he had during most of the closing week of the campaign, he turned his attention away from politics and toward the tense international scene...
...moment that U.S. correspondents had begun coming into free Budapest the rebels had never ceased to ask, "When are the Americans coming?" During the middle of the fighting a Hungarian had lifted up his son so that the child might touch a U.S. flag on a correspondent's car. Again and again, innocent of world affairs, they had asked if arms would come soon from America. Said one: "If the Russians come back, we can't hold out forever...
Alarmed by continuing reports of undesirable side effects from the drug car-butamide, given by mouth for the relief of diabetes (TIME, Oct. 29), Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co. asked 2,900 doctors who have been testing it on 10,000 patients to abandon the trial. Most disturbing was a report that-at least in animals-car-butamide can cause liver damage which might be worse than the diabetes it is meant to control. Lilly was already experimenting with other promising drugs...
...them in. In Budapest all but one of the handful of Western correspondents had to rely on Westerners heading for the Austrian border to carry their copy out; telephones, cables and telegraph lines were cut. The exception: the London Daily Mail's Noel Barber, who had a car, enabling him to commute regularly to the border, where he worked over his copy in the Hungarian customhouse until another Mailman arrived from Vienna to rush it off for transmission. He was gleeful at the way his job was going. "My paper loves me now!" he crowed one morning...
Anyone who happened to meander about yesterday afternoon might have noticed the number of long, chrome-plated automobiles lined up at stoplights. Many of the cars seemed to be Oldsmobiles; or were they Packards or Plymouths? Not that it matters, because they all looked alike--"streamlined"--with from two to four headlights projecting from the front. Their drivers also looked alike, perhaps because they all wore grey-beige topcoats and felt hats, perhaps only because none of them smiled. Each one sat in his huge car, staring ahead tightlipped, with his window rolled up as if to say "No solicitors...