Word: ending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to many Congressmen at the end of the 1958 session that the man most likely to succeed Texas' 77-year-old Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was Arkansas' courtly, bass-voiced Wilbur Daigh Mills. With his combination of brains, earnestness and Southern charm. Mills was liked and respected on both sides of the aisle. Two years ago, at 48, he became the youngest chairman in the history of Congress' most important committee, tax-writing Ways & Means, and he showed promise of being a great one. He already knew more about...
...convention's end, effort to achieve peace through law had been given still another strong push: newly elected A.B.A. President John D. Randall, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa attorney, threw his full weight behind an A.B.A. committee, headed by former President Charles Rhyne, which is already studying the possibilities of peace through law. Said Randall: "We're going to make it the most terrific committee in the history of the A.B.A...
Dinosaur's Dinner. At times, tiring of the earth's-end theme, Clarke pulls a switch, reminds his readers that mankind, whose veins run with the blood of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, is the more likely aggressor, could cut a dreadful swath through the tentacles, feathers and eyestalks of the galaxy's gentle people. But the best story in Across the Sea of Stars uses the solar system's most venerable gimmick, the time machine. A crew of paleontologists is digging out the 50-million-year-old tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur. The leader...
...airborne troops slammed at seven river and canal crossings between the Maas and the lower Rhine, starting Sunday, Sept. 17, 1944. In the biggest airborne attack of all time, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had high hopes of hurdling the river barriers to outflank the Siegfried Line and thus end the war in Europe by a single-front thrust. Operation Market Garden failed. Though the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions won their objectives, the British ist Airborne met disaster, was chopped to ribbons by two German Panzer divisions in one of the European Theater's sharpest setbacks along...
Wild Strawberries (Swedish). In his 18th film, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman examines one day in the life of a very old and eminent doctor, employing the language of dream and symbol to achieve a moving end...