Word: continentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the other side of the continent, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland is expected to lose to Democrat Pat Brown. Should Rockefeller win in New York while his party is losing in California, he will loom as a strong contender for the Presidential nomination.
This fear came just as the British were celebrating, in mannerly fashion, the fact that for the first time in this century they succeeded in closing their trade gap in the first half of this year. Achieving a $383.6 million surplus of visible exports over imports was a satisfying feeling...
One day last summer George Wolfe and his wife sat down for a serious talk in their home in the suburbs of Lewiston, Idaho (pop. 15,000). Subject: the education of their seven children, aged 5 to 14. The Wolfes were worried: it was bad enough that daughter Sharon (12...
* From Belgium's King Leopold II. In the 1880s, when Europe was busy dividing up the continent of Africa, he laid personal claim to the largely uncharted Congo Free State. But Leopold's rubber gatherers maimed, tortured and oppressed the natives to such an extent that world revulsion...
Marriage Disclosed. Herbert von Karajan, 50, Salzburg-born orchestra conductor, widely known as "Generalmusik-direktor of the continent of Europe," who was recently divorced (TIME, Sept. 22) by his second wife after 16 years of marriage; and Eliette Mouret, 19, French model; in Megeve, France.