Word: facts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resignation. Benson turned on a TV set, watched calmly as Morton, on Face the Nation, declared that the Republican Party has to face the "political fact" of Benson's unpopularity in the farm belt...
Farm Policy: In Minneapolis, Rockefeller became the first presidential hopeful in either party to take firm hold of the sharp-thorned fact that in the U.S. today too many people are trying to make a living as farmers. To help low-income farm families escape into other livelihoods, and at the same time to ease the problems of surpluses. Rockefeller proposed a long-term "land-use program" similar to what the Committee for Economic Development advocated two years ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1957). Under this program, the Federal Government would rent entire farms for long periods, take the land...
...Suit. On his last evening alive, Touhy met Bodyguard Miller, Reporter Brennan and a representative of his publisher in Chicago's Press Club to worry over the fact that many booksellers were afraid to sell his book because of a $3,000,000 libel suit brought by Jake the Barber. By coincidence, Factor and Tubbo Gilbert, both grown rich and living in California, were stopping in Chicago on the same night. After two beers, Touhy left with Miller in plenty of time to be in his sister's flat by curfew. The two killers were waiting for them...
...white-smocked women who push ice-cream carts in the parks and squares of Moscow are state employees. The peasants who peddle produce in open-market stands work for collective farms. In theory, all the service and retail trades in Russia are nationalized. But in fact, to judge by the most recent hue and cry in the Moscow press, the entrepreneur in human nature is never dead, and a moral smog hangs over Russia. In the world's most advanced socialist state, private enterprise, profiteering, and just plain payoffs seem to be bursting out all over...
...trial at a movie theater at Havana's Camp Liberty, a crowd of rebel soldiers sent up an impromptu cheer-and were seized and hauled off to have their beards shaved for their impertinence. On the witness stand for a seven-hour harangue,* Castro produced not one fact to support the charge of treason. "I do not deny the merits of Huber Matos," said Castro, explaining that his crime was trying to "confound" the revolution by resigning. When Matos tried to interrupt, Prime Minister Castro snarled: "You'll get your turn, Mr. Morality of the Century...