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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 began to hammer out the language of Article II, Section I, Clause 6 (specifying conditions under which the Vice President assumes the presidency), Delaware's Delegate John Dickinson raised a troublous question. Asked Dickinson: What is meant by the term disability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: 170-Year-Old Riddle | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Richter is a Bach specialist in a country where the cult of Bach demands that old Johann Sebastian be approached in the traditional manner, with coldly precise and mathematically measured accents. Defying convention, Richter brought a dynamic new approach to his Bach reading. His performances proved so brilliantly illuminating that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach: Wunderbar | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

"I'll Go for It." By the 1956 convention in Chicago. Jack Kennedy was back in business. He narrated the party film, The Pursuit of Happiness, which was premiered at the convention, and he made a nominating speech for Adlai Stevenson. But Adlai, after winning, threw the vice-presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Despite the jumbled effort, Jack Kennedy came breathtakingly close to the nomination-and lost only because of that Senate vote, earlier in 1956, against 90% farm parity. That fact, more than any other, dramatizes Kennedy's major 1960 problem: he is still in the Senate and he must still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for the 44th annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Secret Weapon | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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