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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressing the Flesh. Yet Lyndon Johnson, who worries constantly about being misunderstood, understands others. He is a student of people from the moment of introduction, when he goes through a process he calls "pressing the flesh and looking them in the eye." Says he: "When you extend a handshake to a fellow, you can sort of feel his pulse and evaluate him by the way his hand feels. If it's warm and if it has a firm clasp, then you know that he is affectionate and that he is direct. And if he looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sense & Sensitivity | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...stretching from Buffalo to Miami. Purpose: frequent weather announcements plus advice not only on the best routes but on what local station to tune in for news of conditions on the next leg of a long drive north or south. If the new scheme works out, Mutual plans to extend it to all 450 network affiliates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Radio on Wheels | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...million from other World Bank members, would extend credits to applicants that cannot meet World Bank standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...blob of finger paint all over a sheet of paper. And, without half trying, can spatially extend it over his body, his tee shirt, his shoes, dungarees and, unless restrained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: WHAT DO YOU MEAN? NOTHING/ | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...each contract. Still another complaint is insurance. British underwriters have banded together to form the British Insurance (Atomic Energy) Committee to write a plan for insuring foreign nuclear plants. The U.S., while it has finally developed a joint Government-private insurance program for domestic reactors, has no plan to extend coverage to prospective customers abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC POWER: Industry Asks More Government Help for Program | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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