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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even though the bulk of the crop--from Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan--was uncontaminated, major supermarket chains took cranberries off the grocery shelves. With a record crop of 125 million pounds to sell, the indignant industry called Flemming's action "unnecessary, untimely and imprudent." The Secretary had embarked, said the growers' spokesman, "on a cranberry witchhunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cranberry Bog | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

...they wanted to find. Democrats were pleased that they held their own in once Republican Indiana (71 Democratic cities to 36 Republican) and rejoiced over a landslide election of a Democratic Governor in Kentucky. Republicans pointed with pride to significant gains in Ohio's municipal elections and New Jersey's state assembly. One erstwhile Republican oddity emerged from oblivion to become the mayor of Salt Lake City, and another returned to it in trying to become mayor of Philadelphia (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Who's Ahead? | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...help of Sweden, Iceland and Portugal. At each site, a huge antenna was laid out by running a single wire along the ground in a loop 50 miles in diameter. In the U.S., one was set up in the open desert in Arizona, another in a sprawling New Jersey state forest, a third in the Maine woods. Last week, after laborious analysis and collation of recordings received by each station in the far-flung network, Dr. Bomke reported what they had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves Around the Earth | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Finally a bowlegged halfback in a white and gold L.S.U. jersey plucked a bouncing punt out of the air on his 11, and All-America Billy Cannon set out for glory. He shrugged off one red-jerseyed tackier, ran right over a second. At midfield, Cannon surprised Mississippi's Fullback Charlie Flowers by cutting back instead of trying to go to the outside. (Admitted Flowers, an all-America candidate himself: "It was like a high school player trying to tackle an All-America. He went through my hands like nothing.") Cannon was all by himself when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Animal | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Princeton has selfish motives for wishing repeal of this act," Charles E. Lister '60 charged. He suggested that Princeton's geographic isolation results in a desire among Tiger undergraduates for increased interstate commerce. A series of bi-weekly mixers for Princeton men with New Jersey girls schools might ease their problem, Lister continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Debaters Tie Inept Nassau Orators | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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