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...Even if I were going to be hung, I would come anyway," Bell recently wrote to his wife. The third American, William Cowart of Dalton, Ga., wanted to go to Japan. A couple of Belgian army deserters also wanted to get out of Red China, respectively in favor of the U.S. and Laos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beneath the Eaves | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...temper of the assembly had already become evident, and it was not in tune with the temper of Pastor Shirey. On opening night it elected as its new moderator Dr. James McDowell Richards, president of racially integrated Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., and an outspoken antisegregationist. In a series of parliamentary moves it had blocked consideration of the minority report, had defeated anti-segregationists' efforts to delay a vote. Two hours after Shirey's plea, it reaffirmed, by a vote of 293 to 109, its year-old stand against racial segregation (last year's vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Segregation & the Churches | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...widow of W. L. ("Young") Stribling, Georgia's onetime perennial heavyweight boxing title contender who died following a motorcycle crash in 1933; and the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, 48, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta; she for the second time, he for the first; in Marietta, Ga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...hour, most of them calling for flat pay increases. Even within some industries there has been no exact wage pattern. For example, in the aircraft industry 15,000 East Coast A.F.L. machinists got a raise of between 5? and 7? an hour from Republic Aviation ; in Marietta, Ga. the machinists settled for 7.2? for 12,000 workers at Lockheed, while in St. Louis, another 13,600 machinists were satisfied with only 6? more an hour from McDonnell Aircraft. Some of the biggest boosts went to fortunate workers in the booming petroleum, building trades and cannery industries, where 230,000 employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: 10¢ an Hour | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...four psychosomaticists at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital* who moved into the Army's Airborne Department at Fort Benning, Ga. and watched the trainees from reveille until after they were tucked in, tuckered out, at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anxious Jumpers | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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