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...heaviest fire against the government's plan came, surprisingly, from its own benches. Canadian-born Conservative Beverly Baxter, who is also theater critic for the London Evening Standard, revealed that he was "fortunate" enough to visit the U.S. every winter, and he warned that horrific tales about American TV are not exaggerated: "To sit over there through a three-or four-hour sponsored program is to come under a terrorization of mass suggestion of advertising. I mean this seriously. The American girl, for example, is supposed to be the finest of her kind in the world. She is supposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Plugs for BBC | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...second successive year the reuning class has set a record for busses used this time 30. Commenting on the heavy schedule, an MTA official called it "the heaviest load since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '27 Gets MTA Record | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

...speak for Ike. Among them were Senators Jim Duff of Pennsylvania and Fred Seaton of Nebraska, Governors Dan Thornton of Colorado, Val Peterson of Nebraska and Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Representatives Walter Judd of Minnesota and Clifford Hope of Kansas. The Ike big guns would fire their heaviest volleys after Taft left the state this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Fighting Bob | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...again into the shadows. This week he visited Little Rock, Ark., where he was born 72 years ago while his father, Arthur MacArthur, was in command of the old Army arsenal. Obviously caught in the sentiment of the occasion, Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose, deliberately stressed his heaviest political liability: his age. "For me," he said, in what proved to be a thoroughly nonpolitical speech, "the shadows are deepening. I left Little Rock long, long years ago when life was simpler and gentler. The world has turned over many times since then, and those years of old have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prospect & Retrospect | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Lack of central direction has not kept the Churches of Christ from growing impressively; membership, heaviest in the South and Southwest, has doubled in 25 years. Their basic doctrine is a literalistic belief in the New Testament. Central tenets are baptism by immersion and communion every Sunday. Says an Abilene colleague of Nichols: "Our growth is phenomenal because our plea is simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Literal & Simple | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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