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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ranged against the President and the Republican and Democratic leadership in the Senate roll-call vote on foreign aid last week were 18 Democrats and eleven Republicans. The roll call of naysayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE NAYSAYERS | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic sect with a liturgy of its own. tracing back to a fifth century monk named Maro), the Prime Minister a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of the House a Shiite Moslem. The size of the Parliament may vary, but it is usually constituted in multiples of eleven, so that all the faiths, including the Greek Orthodox, the Druse and others may be proportionately represented. The government party and the opposition each form a front to offer a candidate of the appropriate sect for each seat, and though Sunnite runs against Sunnite, and Maronite against Maronite, the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Question of Balance | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...call him to their sickbeds after nightfall: he often showed more than a professional interest in women. His third marriage in 1946 to gentle, adoring Marie-Claire Milhavet seemed an answer to all his problems. Marie-Claire was not only pretty and well-to-do but astonishingly broadminded. Eleven years after their marriage, Dr. Evenou was happily established at the head of a three-story household whose floors, reading from top to bottom, were occupied by 1) his mother, 2) his wife and daughter Françoise, and 3) his mistress Simone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Specialist | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...undeniable impact, for their reading lists are scarcely surpassed in the University and they are usually very well taught. But some people wonder if they do not try to do too much, to read too many books. Except Humanities 6, the lower-level Humanities courses read no fewer than eleven great books in a year, and often quite a few more...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: General Education: Its Qualified Success | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...miles of access roads. Milwaukee is investing $11.2 million. Among its projects: a $5,500,000 steel pier that will jut 1,020 ft. into Lake Michigan and a $1,300,000 pier in the outer harbor. Duluth, working with $10 million allotted by the Minnesota legislature, will build eleven slips for deep-draft ships, expects to spend $30 million in all by 1965. Cleveland is budgeting $5,000,000 for new piers and the roadways and utilities that will serve them. But shippers complain that some lakeside ports are still in the doldrums. Detroit and Buffalo have done little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Unlocking the Lakes | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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