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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In his first few months in office, the President did pretty well on Capitol Hill: he got through his proposals for a minimum wage increase, aid to depressed areas, and the creation of 73 new federal judgeships. But in recent weeks his foreign policy failures have taught Congressmen that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: New Mood, Hard Road | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

Nice Folks. It takes a heap o' claustrophilia to make a trailer a home, but more than 3,500,000 Americans are addicted to what they fondly call Wheel Estate. There are nearly 1,500,000 trailers on the road or lodged at some 18,500 parks in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Immobile Mobiles | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

All I know about motion pictures is what I read in your reviews and see advertised. (I'm a missionary.) But I wonder if anyone else had the same impression I did concerning the Academy Award presentations. The "best" of the American motion picture industry: a comedy concerning the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1961 | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Last year's agreement grandiosely called for a 10% increase over 1959's Sino Soviet trade target of nearly $2 billion. Russia was to supply mainly machinery and finished goods, to be paid for with Chinese foodstuffs and raw materials. But with its well-publicized drought ("for 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Pactmanship | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

"Those tax folks have been ahoundin' me so long and I been afightin' them so long I just thought it'd never end," mumbled partially paralyzed, nearly blind World War I hero Sergeant Alvin York, 73, whose federal income tax debt totaled $172,000, as against a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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