Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME snarled a halyard. The present British Union Jack dates only from 1801, when the saltire of St. Patrick was added. For its map, TIME chose the Betsy Ross flag, rather than any of the various standards actually carried, as a symbol of what the Revolutionary troops were fighting...
...assembly felt its first political thrill when Governor Adlai Stevenson made his brisk speech. Next speaker was Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois. Instead of generalities, which are customary for a convention's first day, Douglas chose to speak on a very specific issue, and one that was obviously worrying the Democrats: Korea...
...with the last rap of the convention gavel last week. Next morning the new national committee met for the first time, dispatched a subcommittee to get Candidate Ike Eisenhower's ideas on Gabrielson's successor. When Ike had given his views and specified a Midwesterner, the committee chose Michigan's national committeeman, Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield...
Lackluster Senator Kem is strongly opposed to "foreign entanglements"; Cain is a windbag; and McCarthy is McCarthy. Millions of independent and convertible voters are looking at their television sets in search of Republicanism's face. The national committee chose to present a face that was not the Republican Party as it is, but the Republican Party as the Democrats...
...quietest election of her modern history, Mexico this week chose Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 59, as President for the next six years. The official count will not be announced until July 20, but government estimates based on incomplete returns indicated that Ruiz Cortines had carried more than 80% of the vote. Minister of the Interior in President Miguel Aleman's government for the past four years, Ruiz Cortines was the choice of the official Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), which has governed the country for 22 years...