Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eager friends of Border-Stater Clement moved in fast on behalf of their man. Clement, quietly staked out in the Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
...inner struggle by relentlessly focusing the servant girl's light on the proud yet suffering features of Peter. In The Bridal Couple, probably painted the year before he died at 63, Rembrandt could still return boldly to another moment of drama for every man, raise it to the level of a welling symbol of devotion, acceptance and proud communion...
...with steels, oil and aircraft stocks pushed higher, and the 1956 bull market went up on three of the four trading days. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at 504.14. The rise of 11.36 points in the week put the market at the highest level since early May and well within striking distance of the alltime 521.05 high in April...
POTATO SHORTAGE is sending prices to highest level in 40 years. On Chicago market, California red potatoes currently bring $10 to $10.50 per 100 lbs., up $4 since May and $7 higher than year ago at this time; Maine potato futures last week hit new high for this year...
Forbidden Planet. Some fascinating gadgets and a robot butler make life in outer space seem even better than in split-level suburbia (TIME, April...