Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the United Nations try to legislate freedom of the press throughout the world, U.S. editors and diplomats alike have regretted the proposal. Nations where the press has little freedom quickly seized on the proposal as a method to hamstring press freedom rather than help it (TIME, March 10, et seq.). Last week the restrictionists won their first, clear victory...
When William Bradford Huie took over the American Mercury two years ago, he promised to "recreate" the magazine in the great tradition of its first editor, Henry L. Mencken. But Bill Huie, who has been in hot water before with his books and articles (TIME, May 30, 1949 et seq.), found himself in trouble again. Almost at the start, he fell out with his backer, Manhattan Millionaire Clendenin Ryan. Five months ago the Mercury owed so much money that Huie was ready to close down. In time's nick, Huie found an angel: J. (for John) Russell Maguire...
...holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery as a result of mistaken identity (TIME, Aug. 6, 1945 et seq.). After Campbell was released, Reporter Mowery was flooded with letters from other prisoners asking help in getting them...
Lacking the learned background of Gallup, Roper et at the New York Daily News wasted no time on the no-opinion crowd, flatly gave Eisenhower 52.1% in New York State (his indicated lead there: about 52.5%) and predicted that he would carry the state...
...thought of an unconquered peak. Twice in 1924, once in 1933 and again last May, pairs of climbers have struggled to within a scant 1,000 ft. of its top, but no one has made it all the way and lived to come down again (TIME, March 31 et...