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...minutes later, Paul Orgeron and Dusty walked together across the big, asphalt-topped playground behind the school, where 50 second-grade children, under the watchful eyes of a teacher, were playing "spat-'em." Orgeron carried a newspaper-wrapped bundle and a suitcase. Dusty carried another suitcase. "Teacher!" called Orgeron. He walked up to Second-Grade Teacher Patricia Johnson and said: "Call all your children up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: That Man Has Dynamite | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Speaker Sam Rayburn, vindicated in his promise to "lick 'em" on the pork barrel, beamed broadly. Same day the Senate gleefully followed the House with a 72-23 vote to override, eight extra, and the bill became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Overriding Smell of Pork | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Western trust into his quest for relaxation of tensions with the Soviet Union. It was perhaps his most hazardous mission. Sometimes that quest sounded unclearly: "People want peace so much," said President Eisenhower on TV in London, "that governments had better get out of their way and let'em have it." More often the President emphasized that he was questing for peace based on principle and sure strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Success & Responsibility | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...with fearful legislative odds, closed the ranks of his dogged Republican minority (153 out of 437) to save the President's perfect veto record last week by one cliffhanging vote. And his victory was bitter medicine indeed to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had vowed to "lick 'em on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Victory for Veto | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Bonanza (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Designed to prove that the shoot-'em-ups are still well-stocked with ammunition, this new one runs on for an hour-in color to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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