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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glowed the Telegraph, so glowed Britain over Harry Truman, in London last week on the last leg of his seven-week swing through Europe (TIME, May 28 et seq.). After the first press conference (where he backed President Eisenhower by saying that American prestige abroad was "never higher"), he was astonished when 200 newsmen applauded him. Even a clothing-store clerk was captivated when Harry sauntered in to purchase a dress tie, lingered to demonstrate his Kansas City haberdasher's technique for selling four-in-hands...
...qualified citizens; 3) gradual release of all land to buyers, regardless of race; 4) improved educational standards so that children of all races can eventually be taught in the same schools. The Capricorn Society's idea for multiple votes (up to six for anyone with such qualifications as higher education, property holding and military service) derive from Nevil Shute's novel In the Wet. The society's next step: getting these provisions enacted into law in each territory...
...Commerce Department raised its estimate of total construction spending this year, forecast a new high of $44.5 billion, $1.5 billion higher than in '55. Paced by aircraft and motor issues, the stock market also continued to edge up; the Dow-Jones industrial average ended the week at 487.?95, nearly 20 points above the low of the ileitis break...
...monstrous dangers inherent in secret and dictatorial government. I for one looked hopefully but vainly ... for a pledge that the last execution had taken place on Soviet soil. I looked for a pledge of civil rights, for the sacred right of habeas corpus, of public appeal to higher courts, of final judgment by one's peers. Instead I learned that three more executions had been announced from the Soviet Union, and my stomach turned over...
...events. In the 24 Olympic track and field events, U.S. athletes right now are good bets to win 13 first places, and, in a few-the pole vault, shotput, 800 meters, etc.-Americans may well finish one-two-three. Nine long-legged American Olympic prospects have high-jumped higher than the Olympic record (6 ft. 8¼ in. by the U.S.'s Walter Davis); three have tossed the shot over 60 ft. (far past the Olympic mark of 57 ft. 1½ in. and the equivalent in the muscle-set of the four-minute mile). A quartet of pole...