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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seattle criminal lawyer and 18-year state senator, won his four-year term in 1956. His overoptimism on tax estimates, plus the recession, ran up a $48 million deficit in his first biennium, which he dealt with in this year's legislature-Democratic in both houses by the largest majority since New Deal days-by pushing through tax boosts that set off a short-lived taxpayer revolt. In Protestant-majority Washington, Rosellini shivers at the fear of a Catholic presidential candidate calling attention to the Catholics already holding Washington's key jobs: Governor, speaker of the house, president...
...Empire but the birth cries of Commonwealth that are heard round the world. They were heard a few weeks ago when Singapore, once proud bastion of Empire, became an autonomous state. They will be heard again in a year or two when Nigeria and Rhodesia, Britain's largest African possessions, assume full freedom. The process is continuous; the Commonwealth has many potential members. And if the 19th century sun never set on the Empire, the 20th century's satellites have a Commonwealth country always in view...
...also kept busy with a new synagogue in Baltimore, the U.S. embassy in Athens, and is acting as a consultant on Manhattan's $100 million, octagon-shaped Grand Central City-a massive, 55-story structure adjacent to Grand Central Station, which will be the world's largest commercial office structure...
...princess by her blood and by her beauty," cooed Lisbon's largest daily, O Século (circ. 110,000). "and she reflects tenderness and joy." Not since Britain's Queen Elizabeth graced the country two years ago had Portugal so eagerly awaited a guest. And Britain, too, had high hopes for Princess Margaret's "private visit" to England's "oldest ally": her appearance at the Federation of British Industries' $3,000,000 fair in Lisbon might do much to woo Portuguese trade away from the Germans. But by the time Margaret's visit...
...Eighteen percent of all those answering the questionnaire said they believed in an "infinitely wise, omnipotent, three-person God who created the universe and who maintains an active concern for human affairs." The largest group of respondents -24%-believed in "a God about whom nothing definite can be affirmed." Only 4% flatly denied God's existence...