Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Killed, 194 (139 Republicans, 55 Dem ocrats) to 179 (126 Republicans. 53 Dem ocrats), the Administration-sponsored, Senate-approved $156 million Frying Pan-Arkansas project designed to bring Frying Pan Creek water to drought-stricken southeastern Colorado (in the Arkansas River valley) by tunnel through the Con tinental Divide...
...Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations" is successful. A letter sent to the organiza tion's members explains the drive: "If our allies are permitted to miscalculate, and vote admission of Red China to the U.N., such action could lead to the gravest con sequences . . . The conventions can prove to the world the universality and solid ity of the American people's opposition through the inclusion of identical planks in the platforms of both parties." Signers of the appeal came from oppo site political poles. Among them: Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas...
...they have a happy family, isn't that what counts?" The week's bulletins on honeymooning Playwright Arthur Miller and Cinemac tress Marilyn Monroe: ¶ In Washington, the House, by a lop sided roll-call vote of 373 to 9, cited left-leaning Miller for contempt of Con gress for his refusal to unclam about form er Red buddies before the Un-American Activities Committee...
Debating the pro and con of huge corporations in general, A.I.M. said: "Their skill, research and gargantuan productive capacity may well have tipped the scales to retention of our freedom. But they must not become destructive to that freedom by gaining so much monopoly as to restrict freedom of choice, gain undue political power or even too large a share of the national product...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Con, ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...