Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muster only 400,000 troops-including 90,000 on Quemoy, 25,000 on Matsu-and an air force of 400 jet fighters spearheaded by F-86 Sabre jet interceptors of Korean-war vintage. The U.S. had in the area the 100-ship, 300-or-so-plane Seventh Fleet, the Fifth Air Force in Japan, the Thirteenth Air Force in the Philippines...
...Arkansas Fifth (Little Rock) District, where Segregationist Independent Dale Alford defeated respected eight-term Democrat Brooks Hays after a write-in campaign attacking Southern Baptist Convention President Hays's moderate stand on integration (TIME, Nov. 17). Protesting the outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells, publisher of the Arkansas Recorder, a Little Rock weekly and Hays's longtime friend-and longtime political critic. Charged Wells* in a well-documented complaint: 1) Alford write-in stickers were delivered to election officials along with ballots and ballot boxes; 2) contrary to law, the stickers...
...Neill recommended that Alford's seat be denied him until the charges were investigated, and two Southern Democrats wrote a minority report protesting the seat denial but agreeing that "further investigation is warranted." The vote presaged a bitter fight between Southerners and Northern liberals over the Fifth District's seat when the House convenes next month...
...list of "certified" colors. Under orders to stop using Red 32 by next March 1, Florida orangemen pleaded that the stuff had not been proved to be harmful in the minute quantities that might enter an orange eater's system. Overruling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court held that in the coal-tar provisions of the Food. Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, "harmless" plainly means absolutely harmless, and that therefore Red 32 "is not to be used at all." Unless Congress amends the law, Florida orangemen are going to have to convince...
...formality had to be observed, even though the outcome was never in doubt. Last week 81,500-odd "Grand Electors" of France-deputies, senators, mayors, deputy mayors, municipal councilors-elected the first President of the Fifth Republic. There were three candidates: an obscure Communist mayor, a Sorbonne dean, and Charles de Gaulle...