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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your fascinating Aug. 3 account of the sleepy people, we are frankly puzzled. You report concerning a 20-year-old young man who had "the not surprising habit of falling asleep in church . . ." Indeed, we are surprised. Even our babies don't fall asleep in church. They just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...stock market took its hardest fall since President Eisenhower's heart attack in 1955, and the biggest drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...heady climate of the Governors' Conference in Puerto Rico, New York's Nelson Rockefeller told reporters that he would base his decision about running for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination on what the pollsters showed this fall about his chances of beating Vice President Richard Nixon. By this week the pollsters themselves had given Rocky ample reason for regretting his statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Polls Apart | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Jerry Kosseff, a glib, messianic promoter from Hollywood. On the speaker's stand Kosseff was a Bible-quoting spellbinder. Recalls one Cabazonian: "Kosseff told us, 'Look around us. This is the Sinai Desert. All we have to do is stretch out our hands and the manna will fall from heaven.' Don't ask me why, but we believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The King of Cabazon | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of one of the brisker shows of last fall. Melvyn Douglas plays a political war-horse returning from retirement to become a special assistant to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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