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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life-in the law or in the ministry?' and he gave me the side of the ministry to defend. Well, by the time I was through defending my position. I had convinced myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Woods | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Carl ("Bobo") Olson is a lean (5 ft. 10½ in.) and hungry-looking; middleweight (160 Ibs.), who learned to defend himself in the tough Kaliki section of Honolulu, where street-fighting is a normal pastime. Paddy Young is a stocky (5 ft. 8 in.) middleweight, who learned his punching as a stevedore on Manhattan's rough & tumble waterfront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dancing Master | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Above all, the Sabre is versatile. The MIG was designed as a shortrange, fastclimbing bomber interceptor to defend Russia. It is ideally suited for Korea. But the Sabre was designed for air-to-air combat - and light bombing - anywhere in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Cats of MIG Alley | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...which all newsmen must belong, haled Editor Heikal before a disciplinary committee on charges of "committing an act infringing on [the Syndicate's] dignity." When the committee, composed of two judges, two government officials and one press representative, asked Heikal if he wanted a lawyer to defend him, he replied: "I am in no need of a lawyer. I came here to accuse. I don't consider myself to be accused of anything." To Heikal's defense rallied Naguib's right-hand man, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, who told the committee that Naguib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Iron Chains | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

After considerable backstage wheedling, Joe Martin got Dan Reed to open hearings on EPT (TIME, June 1). But the hearings last week turned out to be farcically one-sided. Treasury Secretary Humphrey, instead of fully arguing the merits of the extension, was forced to defend himself against charges of lobbying for the bill. He admitted that he and Under Secretary Marion Folsom had spoken to officials of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (both have stuck to their stand against EPT extension). Nearly all the witnesses summoned by the committee turned out to be against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Troll | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

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