Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book") people, who scratched a living from 40 sun-baked acres of cotton at Bonham, Texas. Folks such as his family, he thinks, are the "real people," and his feeling for them forms the basis of his political liberalism. Since 1913 Rayburn has represented Texas' agricultural (cattle, corn, cotton) Fourth...
...Three automakers are deep in crash programs to get into the market with small, compact cars. As small European and U.S. cars grabbed 15% of the market, American Motors presented fresh evidence of how profitable the market is. American's President George Romney reported that in the fourth quarter of 1958 the company earned $21 million, or $3.56 a share, nearly as much as it cleared in the previous twelve months. Studebaker-Packard's Lark sold so well in the first ten days of January that the company for the fourth time has raised its production...
...heady moments last week the Deputies of Gaullist France almost succeeded in recreating the wrangling course of the Fourth Republic. "The representatives of the working class have been arbitrarily reduced," bawled Communist Waldeck Rochet. "We are only ten Deputies for 4,000,000 voters." From somewhere in the rear of the great half-shell that houses the National Assembly, a voice shouted back: "That's ten too many." A right-wing Deputy's ironic reference to "how times have changed" brought Premier Michel Debre himself to his feet. "One thing has not changed," roared the testy Debre...
Divorced. Franchot Tone, 53, Cornell-educated (Phi Beta Kappa) actor; by Actress Dolores Dorn-Heft Tone, 23, his fourth wife; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 a.m.). Fourth of a six-part series about the half dozen men who have had the greatest influence, at least as Johns Hopkins University sees it, in shaping modern society. Subject this time: Philosopher John Locke, whose works inspired the framers of the American Constitution...