Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arkansas was a question mark. There seemed little reason to expect trouble. But TIME'S Washington bureau reported disquieting rumors about the plans of Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. To Little Rock went Chicago Bureau Correspondent Jack Olsen, an old Arkansas hand (he reported the story of Arkansas' industrial development, TIME, March 11, and the cover story of Senator John McClellan, TIME, May 27). In a pet cliche of Governor Faubus, a stitch in time saved nine. Olsen was one of the first out-of-state newsmen to arrive in Little Rock, the only one present when...
...Mikoyan's favorite pastimes was preparing New Year's gifts, and deciding what to give whom. Some typical decisions of those days: for Stalin, a chocolate jack boot; for Molotov, a chocolate stool; for Khrushchev, a chocolate bottle; for Malenkov, a chocolate table; for Beria, a chocolate pistol. An excellent cook who likes to serve Armenian fare with bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master...
Just before the rally began, the finance company seized one contestant's Fiat. The jack-booted driver of an Australian Ford showed up with his rear seat cramped by an ice-cream-packed icebox. The crew of a Queensland Volkswagen whooped it up in American Indian headdress. But most of the competitors in the 10,563-mile, round-Australia Mobilgas Rally who started west from Melbourne last month spent their last spare minutes sensibly checking safety equipment. They would have to drive a distance more than one-third the circumference of the earth, bounce over the worst...
...above the preceding year. For the whole month, New York City area stores rang up 7% more sales than in last year's record August. And in the Labor Day week, stores were crowded with shoppers, notably at Macy's in Manhattan. Said Macy's Chairman Jack I. Straus: "In view of the continuing high levels of employment and consumer income throughout the nation, we anticipate fall sales to be about 6% ahead of last year...
Fire Down Below. Lust, betrayal and revenge in the Caribbean-all slanted by Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw's eye for irony; with Robert Mitchum. Rita Hayworth. Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...