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On a summer's day in 1848, a plump, hoopskirted housewife stood up in Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y. and read the eighth of eleven resolutions to the delegates at the first U.S. women's rights convention. With her blonde sausage curls bobbing in emphasis, Elizabeth Cady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: As Maine Goes ... | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

By 1959 Lucia was the legislature's minority leader, the first woman ever to hold the post, and the mother superior of Maine's thriving Democratic Party. Last spring, when Maine held its state primary, Senator Muskie and the other leading Democrats had their answer to Maggie Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: As Maine Goes ... | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

THE travel-weary U.S. motorist has been conditioned to think of food-and a chance to let the kids out of the car-when he spots a roof of bright orange tile along the highway. This "landmark for hungry Americans" is the trademark of Howard Dearing Johnson, a onetime cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Host of the Highways | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

Into Bombay Harbor last week steamed the Soviet tanker Uzhgorod, loaded with 11,000 tons of high-speed diesel fuel-and with bad news for the West. The Uzhgorod carried the first installment in a 3½-year deal under which India will buy 1,500,000 tons of Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Flow from the East | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

Trading on Banda's gratitude, Macleod firmly presented the conference with the principles for a new Nyasaland constitution, among them provision for a legislature reflecting Nyasaland's African majority but safeguarding the minority (20,000) whites and Asians. With something for everybody in Macleod's package, bargaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NYASALAND: Smiles That May Not Last | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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