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...smiled through tear-dimmed eyes, raised his fingers in the victory sign and went inside. Soon afterward the street was nearly empty once again. That evening Churchill came out of the house once more, climbed into his car and drove to his doctor's for a checkup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Prime Backbencher | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...their President's quick grasp of the stately choreography of a full-dress Washington reception. At week's end Magloire left Washington for New York and Nashville to receive kudos from Columbia, Fordham and Fisk Universities; afterwards he will go to Boston for a quick physical checkup at the Lahey Clinic before he starts a five-day tour of Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Commanding Performance | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Christmas sales, 16% above last year. For the first time in its history Chicago's big Marshall Field had a million-dollar shopping day in November, as the Christmas season opened. In Boston, Kansas City. Seattle and 30 other major U.S. cities, the Commerce Department took a quick checkup, found Christmas buying running an average 5% ahead of last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Holiday Cheer | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...Narrator. Wilson, an uninhibited teller of down-to-earth stories, was not tabbed for a single campaign speech by the Republican National Committee. But he was going home to Detroit last week for his yearly physical checkup, and he was booked to speak at a fund-raising dinner there. Then a speech in Chicago, 48 hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Cove Cones | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...warehouses-and in the Nautilus. Weak welded pipes burst under pressure which would have been withstood by the specified seamless piping. Moreover, it turned out that piping was mixed up too in Electric Boat's second atomic submarine, the Sea Wolf, now abuilding. After a careful checkup, the Navy blamed the trouble not on sabotage but on carelessness. Electric Boat fired the man who slipped up-a warehouse foreman with 42 years' service-and will pay for repairs. But the mistake will delay the Navy's atomic submarine program from three to six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Pipe Trouble | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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