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...when he commandeered a C-47 and flew to asylum in West Germany. Between races, Slovak is now a crop duster. And there was Bill Muncey, 30, onetime professional hockey player. In 1955 Muncey was so infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both 1956 and 1957, became a local hero with a slick disk-jockey show that leaned toward cool jazz. Muncey's specialty: winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Water Monsters | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama's John Sparkman. "Great progressive leadership," cried Ohio's Stephen Young. This was far more than the usual reflex action to an attack on a member of the club: the Johnsonian gonfalon, it was plain to see, was moving deep into the liberal ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Turning the Flank | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Senator Gale McGee is making Wyoming's November mistake obvious with his puppet-like willingness to carry the flag of any Democratic Senator who has a petty personal grievance to air. We don't feel his actions represent the feelings of the people of Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

DEFENSE. The leaders of the newly free Afro-Asian countries were farseeing enough to realize that the world outside was cold and forbidding, too gale-swept by war and ideology for them to stand alone. By linking up with Great Britain, the newcomers could make their piping voices heard in the councils of the world. They are further drawn to the Commonwealth because "we don't want to shake off British imperialism merely to replace it with Russian or Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Redeemed Empire | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Flailing his arms and thumping his desk in a nearly empty Senate chamber last week, Wyoming's freshman Democratic Senator Gale Me Gee loosed a rambling tirade in his campaign to help New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson block confirmation as Secretary of Commerce of former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss (TIME, June 15). Charged McGee: Strauss was guilty of "evasion" and even "falsehood" during the long, quarrelsome Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee hearings on his nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Nightmare Quality | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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