Word: linke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...51st U.S. state? The one-two admission of Alaska and Hawaii variously stirred regrets, misgivings or condescensions last week on the U.S. island in the Caribbean that calls itself a Free Associated State, or Commonwealth. El Mundo, the island's largest newspaper, admiring the tidy formality of the link to the Federal Government that the other noncontiguous territories achieved in statehood, called the commonwealth relationship "a sloppy and ridiculous rag doll." The Statehood Party (24% of the vote in the last election) took new hope. But the architect of commonwealth, Governor Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME cover, June...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter that link audience and cast in this honestly observed and superlatively acted first play...
...testy New Englander, all business and no chitchat. Persons, 63, is a mellow, Scotch-sipping, storytelling Alabaman, whose years as a U.S. Army liaison man on the Hill (1933-38, 1939-49), as head of the Defense Department's Hill representatives (1948-49), and as Ike's link with Congress (1953-58) make him alert to congressional sensitivities and sensibilities. He may not manage his time-or Ike's-with quite such crisp efficiency as Adams did. But perhaps because they like him better Congressmen consider him by far the more effective of the two. Says...
...Scandinavian models, Soviet architects broke with the clumsy gingerbread architecture of the Stalin era, planned ten sections of four-story apartment houses to be assembled from prefab materials and set down amid flowers, shrubbery and ornamental ponds, as well as shopping centers, nurseries and kindergartens. Express buses will link the satellites to Moscow...
...Baltic coast at Warnemünde, docks are being built to establish one of the world's largest ports. It will be open to Soviet shipping this year. A 15-year inland waterway scheme will link Berlin and Magdeburg by a system of canals and rivers with Russia's Kaliningrad (formerly East Prussian Königsberg) and Poland's industrial Bydgoszcz...