Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes real guts and convictions to deal with ignorant home-town bullies; but if we can do this, we are better able to tackle the world's Faubuses...
...hottest potato that the President of the U.S. had thrown him all session. The assignment: keep the House from overriding the President's veto of Congress' cherished $1.2 billion rivers and harbors bill (TIME, Sept. 7), a pork barrel packed with projects dear to the folks back home-and offensive to Ike because it called for 67 new projects not in the Administration's budget. The bill originally rolled through the House on a thunderous voice vote, rumbled on through the Senate with a hogshead-sized bipartisan majority...
...heavy construction. The F. W. Dodge Corp. reported that construction-contract awards in 1959's first seven months jumped 11% to $22.5 billion. The new lift in heavy construction comes at an opportune time, just as builders are warning that tighter mortgage money may slow the pace of home starts, now a near record 1.300,000 a year. Overall construction is moving 12% ahead of last year, at an annual rate of $55 billion; builders expect it to rise to at least $57 billion in 1960. Says Chairman Melvin H. Baker of Buffalo's National Gypsum...
Married. Jacqueline Gay Hart, 21, comely New Jersey debutante, whose unpremeditated flight to Chicago six weeks ago on the eve of a lavish church wedding aroused a nationwide manhunt; and Stanley Noyes Gaines, 25, her forgiving fiancé; in a secret ceremony in the Harts' Short Hills, NJ. home...
...Where the original was visually stark and grimy, the remake, splashed with incongruously cheery color, has the phony patina of Palm Springs. The sets and scenery (some of it filmed in Bavaria) suggest a Victor Herbert operetta rather than German bourgeois society. And the hardbitten, even morbid truths hammered home in the German version become soft and mawkish half-truths under the hand of Hollywood's Edward Dmytryk, who has consented to a happy ending that makes the teacher's tragedy merely pathetic...