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Cross Section. When he concluded his state paper on U.S. hopes for a prosperous, free world, the President took a chrome steel spade that was inscribed: Here, in the Heart of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower learned the Lessons of Youth which shaped his rise to stalwart leader and fearless fighter for the rights of man in the era of liberty's greatest trial. He drove the spade into the ground and turned over the first pile of Abilene earth on the plot where the $3,000,000 Eisenhower Library will stand (said he, when photographers asked for the inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hometown Birthday | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...week the Soviet press had fleshed out the image they sought: of an America that gave its heart to the world's No. 1 peddler. "Nikita S. Khrushchev," said Moscow's Literary Gazette, "is the constant, fearless, fervent champion of peace. Now all the common people of the world know it. This includes the citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Word to the Home Folks | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Government officials, said Justice John Marshall Harlan for .the majority in a historic, 5-to-4 decision, "should be free to exercise their duties unembarrassed by the fear of damage suits . . . which might appreciably inhibit the fearless, vigorous and effective administration of policies." So saying, the Court extended to all policymaking federal officials a rule that it had applied to Cabinet officers back in 1896: they have "absolute privilege" in making statements on "matters committed by law to [their] control or supervision," meaning that they are immune from libel suits even if a statement is malicious and false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Damages Undone | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman LL.D. Citation: "Fearless crusader against economic chaos, he has spent 40 fruitful years in the quest for order and equability among the free nations of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell them apart. After Hart came Tom Mix, "the fearless man of the plains," who looked like a mail-order cowboy but was a genuine rough-string rider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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