Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your English readers was charmed with the glimpses of England behind Britain's Macmillan on the Oct. 19 TIME cover. However, I was surprised to note that the swing to the right in the election was so pronounced that the traffic under the Prime Minister's nose is keeping to the right. I doubt whether even a big Tory majority could cause such a change. Maybe the picture shows a narrow, one-way street, and the cyclists are merely Labor voters walking their machines against the traffic to demonstrate that freeborn Britons can go where they darn well...
...stalemate were such negotiable issues as wage hikes, on which the gap remained only a cent an hour. The big difference was one of principle, to wit, the industry's need for more flexible work rules so that the mills can use their work forces more efficiently to cover the costs of higher wages and higher benefits. Snapped R. Conrad Cooper, U.S. Steel Corp. vice president and top industry negotiator: "The basic position of the steel companies is not about to crumble whether or not there is an injunction." And even though auto assembly lines, tractor plants and construction...
...Cover) Behind wailing police sirens, a cream-colored Cadillac sped into Abbeville, La. from the dusty airport, rolled on past the white-columned courthouse, and pulled up in front of the Candlelight Restaurant. Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington unfolded his long (6 ft. 2 in., 183 lbs.), well-tailored frame from a rear seat and, ringed by Louisiana politicos, strode inside to start shaking hands. As photographers flashed away, Abbeville's Mayor Roy Theriot bounced forward to get his picture taken with Symington and Louisiana's own Senator Allen Ellender. "I'm going to pose with...
...School before joining the Foreign Service after World War I. As he rose through the corps, putting out diplomatic fires from North Africa to Berlin, from Trieste to Panmunjom, Suez, Tunis and Lebanon (TIME cover, Aug. 25, 1958), 3,400 Foreign Service pros came to look upon him as "Mr. Foreign Service." His trademark was an amiable smile overlaying a dependable core of toughness. Said he to a trouble-minded Lebanese rebel leader at the height of the Lebanon crisis in August 1958: "You know, we have the power to destroy your positions in a matter of seconds. We haven...
...blocks when he noticed that he was being followed by another car. As he later told the story, Onetime Resistance Leader Mitterrand did not panic; instead, he pulled his car to a stop, piled out. leaped over an iron fence into the adjacent Luxembourg Gardens and took cover in a bed of geraniums. Seconds later a burst of submachine-gun fire riddled his empty Peugeot...