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Power. The only measure of success in the air, for people and for airborne industry, is the quality of that wondrously complicated envelope of safety, and the first responsibility for that safety rests in the hands of an organization that, for power and procedure, has no parallel in the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Bird Watcher | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

In a huge, semicircular conference room in the U.S. Capitol, seven Senators and seven Representatives last week sat down to what may be the most important job of their legislative lives: hammering out a labor reform bill. Between the hard-fisted Landrum-Griffin bill passed by the House (TIME, Aug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Acid & Acrimony | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The bewildering plot runs in and out and on and on. An Arab prince, played with unabashed narcissism by John Saxon, pursues an ebony-eyed half-breed (Susan Kohner) through the three tasteless hours and 14 minutes (with intermission), only to lose her in the end. "Some day I'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Died. Charles Alien Ward, 72, two-fisted Minnesota advertising executive (president of St. Paul's Brown & Bige-low); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An adventurer in his youth. Ward roamed the waterfronts in China, prospected for gold in Alaska, ended up in Leavenworth in 1919 on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

A willing, two-fisted debater, McCormack once spoke on 200 different subjects in a single year, had a memorable moment when he demolished Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman in the House's own florid parliamentary language: "I'm one of the few men in the House who still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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