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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEMOCRATISM is hostile to Congress, Burnham contends, because Congress, as the founding fathers intended, does not directly represent the majority will. What emerges from Congress is a composite of the "specific interests, goals, values, ideals and sentiments" of citizens in the various states and congressional districts. Through the slow-paced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE U.S. CONGRESS Is It Victim to Democratism? | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

For Bunky Knudsen, the rewards of success are a $100,000 annual salary, a sprawling, twelve-room colonial farmhouse, with two tennis courts and a swimming pool, on 40 acres in suburban Birmingham, Mich., where he lives with his wife Florence and their four teenage children. Knudsen does not spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chip Off the Old Engine Block | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Of course, I realize that to the average man in the street who reads the N.Y. Times and the N.Y. Herald Tribune only, and hears such commentators on the radio as Edward R. Morrow, or Barry Gray it would seem that Dr. Bunche is a great and good man who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt's Letter | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

"The visitor," wrote Frankel, "notes the absence of youngsters, at the movies and in the streets, even before he hears a sociological explanation for their exodus: they aspire to assimilation, to opportunity alongside the Russians. They might rebel against Yiddish culture even if it were sanctioned.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Visit to a Promised Land | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Big Question. Then, as quickly as it went away, the peculiar daylight of space will return. Again there will be no twilight, just darkness-then light in the space cabin. And then, just before he completes the first orbit, a query will come from earth: Is the physical condition of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A New Human Experience | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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