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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore one night later the Vice President returned angrily to the political fray, renewed attacks on Adlai Stevenson. At week's end, after eleven days and 14 states, Nixon arrived in Washington for 48 hours' rest before a final campaign assignment: one more sweep of the U.S. lasting right down to Election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beyond Politics | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...inflated the life rafts. The passengers waded cautiously through the cabin rubble, hopped into the rafts. Within ten minutes after the Stratocruiser struck water Pontchar train's small boats had picked up all survivors-only five were slightly injured-and deposited them, snuggled into blankets, aboard the cutter. Eleven minutes later, what was left of the Stratocruiser disappeared in the foam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Ditching | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...powerful Dartmouth J.V. football team, armed with both pin-point passing and breakaway running, piled up a score of 58-0 almost at will yesterday as it routed a struggling Crimson eleven at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Defeat J.V.'s By Margin of 58-0 | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

When asked "What does a tailor do?" the Oriental children are apt to answer: "Slaughters chickens." "makes shoes," or "builds houses." While in a fourth-grade reading test the Europeans missed only one word in every nine lines, the Orientals flubbed eleven. In a special intelligence test given 13-year-olds, the Europeans scored 51 out of a possible 60. The scores for the Kurds and Yemenites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration in Israel | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...handed the Crimson its first "official" Ivy defeat in history today, and in doing so made it seem almost certain that it would not be the last of the season. The victory was also Columbia's first since this fall's formal opening of the League, and first in eleven games...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Benham Passes 69 Yards to Spraker As Columbia Edges Crimson, 26 to 20 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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