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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After, an impassioned hour and 40 minutes in defense of India's seizure of disputed Kashmir, India's waspish V. K. Krishna Menon, the United Nations' champion long-distance speaker, collapsed in a heap one day last week and had to be rushed off to the medical clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nyet | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Connor clocked such a fast first run that Bibbia made a dangerous mistake trying to catch up and came to woe at Shuttlecock. With Bibbia disqualified, Doug Connor was an easy winner and once more the undisputed champion of Cresta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Moritz Sleigh Ride | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...took Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio nine bruising rounds to win back his title from Johnny Saxton last September in Syracuse. He needed fewer than two rounds when Johnny tried a comeback in Cleveland last week. Basilio shot out of his corner at the opening bell, chopped at his challenger with a vicious, two-fisted attack that sent ringsiders' memories back to the second Louis-Schmeling fight of 1938. By the end of the first round, Saxton was on his heels. Midway in the second, a wrist-deep right to the midsection made him drop his guard; a left hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...tickets printed at $2.00 for $1.00--a recent change. It is rumored that this is a violation of statute, or at least foul play. I say let's clean up this mess, this corruption. And I say let's get a proven man to carry the torch, a stalwart champion of the rights of the Harvard Man--Denis Barber ('60). (Name Withheld...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRUSADE | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

...unlikely. The cocky Airedale, Westhay Fiona of Harham, stumbled and broke gait. The Dalmatian, Ch. Roadcoach Roadster, defied show-ring manners with the curving droop of its tail. But through all the long interlude, the long-haired, silver-blue Afghan stayed cool and aloof, a champion without pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Longhair Showman | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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