Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birds were making music all the day. But most Kentuckians could hardly no tice or hear last week above the political din that filled the state. Albert Benjamin Chandler, 57, Kentucky's governor in 1935-39 and U.S. Senator in 1939-45, was noisily on the comeback trail (TIME, April 11). "Happy" Chandler was wowing the voters everywhere with his own special brand of political minstrelsy. His opponent for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Judge Bertram T. Combs, 43, of Prestonsburg, was still campaigning in a sober, solemn fashion that failed to win many laughs but was clearly winning some...
Businessman's Jet. The Magister is one of the best evidences of the big strides that the French aircraft industry has made in its comeback from the wreckage of World War II. At first, in 1945, French planemakers had taken off on a false course, designed dozens of fighters, bombers and heavy transports that could not be produced in their ruined factories. But in recent years the industry gradually got its bearings. Instead of trying to compete with the U.S. and Britain all along the line, France's planemakers are now concentrating on smaller projects where French inventive...
During last summer's long holiday season, however, St. Laurent made an impressive comeback. He returned to Ottawa spry and refreshed, and led the government through the current parliamentary session without any serious recurrence of last year's fatigue. "He's as perky as he ever was," observed one government official. "He's enjoying his job too much to give it up." A top Liberal who asked him point-blank about his political plans last week reported afterward that St. Laurent said "definitely, with no ifs or buts [that he] will run in the next election...
...decree, dismayed by his government's apparent lack of political and technical know-how. The President himself complains that most of his economic advisers are "no-idea men." And until he can launch a program to encourage business and raise living standards, the threat of a "prolabor" Communist comeback will not disappear...
...revolution was just beginning to win converts when World War II put an end to such civilized luxuries as flower exhibitions. Sofu kept on practicing his art in private; then the B-29s which knocked out Tokyo demolished the Grass Moon School building. Sofu's postwar comeback owed much to Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, who, Sofu says, "had a good basic understanding of the nature of Japanese flower arrangement." Some 6,000 U.S. occupation-force wives took up Sofu's style; about 400 of them earned the Grass Moon certificate, are qualified to teach the art in Hawaii...