Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have "democratism" [May 25], is it not because Congress has so persistently lost face with us by enforcing the will of minorities, at our expense? We have inflation because Congress insists on spending, spending, spending, to gratify special interests. We have billion-dollar mountains of farm surplus because that woos the farm groups. The Solons are afraid to curb the corruption of labor leaders because they control votes. Firm civil rights legislation can and would be talked to death by minority filibustering...
...Foretaste. Behind this startling about-face stretched a recent history of unaccustomed vacillation. Fearful that popular Socialist Carlo Schmid might win the presidential elections scheduled for July 1, Christian Democrat Adenauer three months ago tried to press his own party's presidential nomination on pudgy, cigar-chomping Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the "engineer of the German economic miracle." When Erhard, with the support of Christian Democratic backbenchers, refused to let himself be kicked upstairs, it marked the first successful defiance of Adenauer in his own party...
...that nervous note, the teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in the finals of the famed Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition. With his boyishly chubby face creased in an intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize went to U.S.-trained Jaime Laredo, still a week short of his 18th...
Woman Obsessed (20th Century-Fox). "You'll never touch me again!" cries the red-haired Saskatchewan farm wife (Susan Hayward) at her rednecked husband (Stephen Boyd), who has just whopped her one in the face. She slams the bedroom door and locks it. Bellowing like a mad bull, he busts the door down and-blackout. Several scenes later, Susan announces bitterly that she is pregnant. As the four-column ads explain it: "She hated the child whose life stirred within her because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised." She prays that she will lose...
...this crucial question a correlation between religious conviction and political policy is dimly suggested which, if it can be trusted, is of the very first philosophical importance. There are two statistical facts 1.) that among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative in the face of an otherwise inevitable world war with the Soviet Union was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one 2.) the group of 215 who chose war include over fourfifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality...