Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harrisburg's barn-big Zembo Temple, where 6,000 Democrats had shelled out $100 each for Johnson, roast beef, ice cream and the 48-piece Hegeman String Band, the reception was sweetly tender. The Hegeman String Band strummed Deep in the Heart of Texas. During the preliminaries, beaming Lyndon table-hopped through the hall and on through the two tents pitched to handle overflow diners, shook hands, cracked jokes ("You discovered oil here in Pennsylvania, but we get all the blame"). Boss Lawrence courteously introduced his guest as "the man who guided through the Congress the programs upon which...
...industry-hungry South, the federal $1-an-hour minimum-wage law protects workers in the big new plants shipping goods in interstate commerce, but Deep Dixie has massively resisted state minimum-wage laws to cover local industry and retail businesses fattened by the new payrolls. Last week progressive North Carolina (TIME, May 4) broke the Deep South line with a 75?-an-hour minimum that assured prompt raises for 55,000 low-paid Tarheels...
Freedom Leap. Fortnight ago two Burmese physicians were excitedly summoned by a Russian woman embassy doctor to Stryguine's fashionable 42 Inya Road address. They found Stryguine in a deep coma from an overdose of sleeping pills. He was surrounded by Russians who only reluctantly let the critically sick man be moved to Rangoon General Hospital. Two Soviet toughs went along to watch...
...building hospitals and schools (the country is 65% illiterate), which will strain even the oil-rich budget. The army still has tanks, and the Communists still could muster 80,000 well-organized rioters. But working for Romulo Betancourt are his honesty, his political savvy and his country's deep hunger for peace...
...Tradition," they answered in embarrassed fashion, and averting their eyes, added, "It's hard to fight against it. It has its roots deep in the slavery period...