Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tinker to Evers to Chance. In Chicago, transit authority detectives spied Robert Hinton picking a pocket at a crowded bus stop, held off long enough to let Franklin Palmer pick Hinton's pocket, then arrested both...
Conant has never been easy to ignore for long. Beginning with his first year as Harvard's president (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), through Harvard's tercentenary (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936), through postwar revamping of Harvard's curriculum (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946), Conant has been on TIME'S cover three times before. This is his fourth appearance-a rare record for a nonpolitical personage. Even this appearance goes back to his Harvard days. For Conant's fascination with public schools began in 1933, when he had to decide "whether to drown a kitten," meaning Harvard...
...Nikita Khrushchev denned peaceful coexistence as meaning Western abandonment of West Berlin on Russian terms, and acceptance of the Communist conquest of the captive nations of Eastern Europe. Red China stirred up ferment on the borders of India. North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh upgraded his years-long guerrilla bites at Laos (pop. 2,000,000) into an artillerysupported invasion (see FOREIGN NEWS) so threatening that Laos appealed to the United Nations for help. The U.S., in a stern statement, flatly charged "the Communist bloc" with intent to "foment and direct a rebellion within Laos," noted that...
...PRACTICE LANDINGS with two engines cut have been ruled out by Federal Aviation Agency in hopes of preventing crashes similar to first fatal Boeing 707 accident (five men dead) last month on Long Island. Under new ruling, airline crews may cut two engines only at altitude...
...Blue Angel (20th Century-Fox). "Could a man have a better reason for throwing his life away?" ask the big ads for this glossy U.S. remake of a 1930 German classic. The answer the admen clearly expect from every red-blooded male is: No, not when the "reason" is long-limbed May (rhymes with thigh) Britt, Hollywood's newest sex goddess. This is not the answer they are likely to get from anyone who saw Marlene Dietrich in the original Blue Angel...