Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, TIME took a called third strike-or did not get to the plate at all. Somehow Babe Ruth never made the cover. Brooklyn Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year the week his cover hit the stands...
Before the House Ways and Means Committee last week was a sensemaking Administration proposal to make immediately available to the states an estimated $587 million for extending the unemployment compensation of eligible unemployed whose state payments had run out. The bill would cover expirations during the 15-month period from last Jan. 1 to March 31, 1959. It would extend compensation 50% longer than the maximum time allowed by state law, ranging (depending on the states) from eight to 15 weeks. It would advance to the states the necessary funds but require that the money eventually be paid back...
...godfather of the atomic submarine, speaks only one language: plain English, spiced with pepper. Last week he flouted Navy customs by showing up in civvies before the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, flouted congressional etiquette by unleashing peppercorn potshots that had even his hosts ducking for cover...
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...says Biologist Thomas J. Haley of the University of California. He exposed rats to an eventually fatal dose of radiation, found that one group, with light exercise, tired and died rapidly, while another group that stayed quiet took far longer to perish. If humans find themselves under some cover during an atomic blast, he feels that they should stay put. "You may experience radiation sickness, but you may at least live to recover...