Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before TIME appears on most newsstands, Mrs. Gerald F. Miner, a 52-year-old grandmother, has begun leafing through her copy. Then a second and more specialized TIME press run begins. The sound, instead of the roar of rotary presses, is the soft plunk of a six-key braille typewriter. Mrs. Miner is laboriously pecking out TIME'S cover story (25 minutes for a braille page) on sheets of thin white cardboard...
...Ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to fly to the London disarmament talks. White House officials explained that Dulles' sudden trip was neither routine nor intended to embarrass U.S. Disarmament Negotiator Harold Stassen; instead, Dulles wants another face-to-face huddle with Western diplomats on key issues (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months ago, when U.S. attorneys attempted to hale him before a trial jury as the mastermind behind the acid-blinding (TIME, April 16, 1956 et ante) of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel, two key underworld Government witnesses took added five-year sentences for contempt rather than sing against Dio on the witness stand, and Johnny Dio's trial had to be postponed...
...general-under Republican and Democratic governors-respected General Sage, an old newspaperman himself (publisher of the weekly Deming Graphic), had fortified his post by appointing relatives of many potent political figures to his staff. When Addington started digging into the operations of Sage's elite, several of his key informants received anonymous telephone threats. Addington himself was warned to lay off or be knocked off. He was pleased. "When people start threatening," he said, "then you know they're scared...
...never know what became of her. She disappears into a settlement house to devote her shattered life to teaching music to underprivileged children. Even those who adore youngsters blindly may wince at the subsequent digression into a joyous interracial sea of gap-toothed, freckled faces, cutely squalling songs off-key-the sort of kiddies' night program that could break up a P.T.A. meeting. When Cary and Deborah at last clinch again on Christmas Day, it is a miracle that the juvenile choir does not burst in shrieking Away in a Manger...