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...ceremony started, Yasmin plucked at her mother's elbow, whispered: "What are you doin', Mommy, gettin' married?" Even the text for the marriage service suited the occasion. It said: "Will you love, honor and cherish [each other] throughout your married life" instead of "so long as you both shall live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Unfrumptious Wedding | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...clear indication that the Revolutionary Council was about ready to come to terms on a good, sound Suez deal. Grimacing from behind his dark glasses, Salem mimicked old Mustafa Nahas, and the crowd, in stitches, shouted the Arabic equivalent of "Give 'em hell, Salem!" At his elbow sat Premier Mohammed Naguib, offering encouragement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Give 'em Hell, Salem! | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...wife ("Keep your hopes high and trust in the justice of the Czechoslovak people, who are working for peace"), he copied it in his own handwriting just so his wife would know he was still alive. When Oatis later stood up in court, a guard at each elbow, he simply parroted almost "word for word a script they had written for me." "Do you feel guilty?" asked the judge when he had finished. "Yes, I do," answered Oatis dejectedly. "Seventy days of questioning had taught me that was the right answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Frame-Up in Prague | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Visited a Denver osteopath for treatments to his bruised elbow, and told reporters that it was healing satisfactorily, though it still bothered him after a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Down from the Mountains | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Last week President Eisenhower went back to Denver from his vacation-within-a-vacation at Aksel Nielsen's rustic camp (TIME, Sept. 7), and resumed his schedule of work & play. The President was refreshed and jaunty after a week in the air-cooled Rockies, although his bruised elbow had cut into his fishing (he did catch the biggest fish of the week, a 15⅜ in., 1¼ lb. rainbow trout). On his return to Denver, Ike hardly had time to greet the First Lady and Mrs. Doud before he was engulfed in affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Down from the Mountains | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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