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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when auto sales skidded down sharply, TIME again updated the subject in a cover story on the Big Three (May 12, 1958), buttonholed motorists around the land. TIME found that they really thought U.S. cars were "too complicated," "too full of gadgets," "too expensive," and that "they all look alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...sized press conference ("not customary in my country") for eager newswomen. Self-possessed and pleasant, Nina Petrovna made a big hit, even got a laugh when in careful English she kidded Jinx Falkenburg (who was present as Pat Nixon's guest) about her beehive-shaped hat: "You look like a Ukrainian bride, no?" With the promise that "I will give you some bits of information you desire," Mrs. Khrushchev laid down some homey and revealing bits. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Mrs. | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Adlai Stevenson was not interested in another try for the presidency-as he still insisted-he managed last week to look more, talk more and walk more like a candidate than those on the active lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: My Deepest Secret | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote without even trying, Stevenson listened in rapt attention. Momentarily dropping his faraway look, he said: "Will you please find [Administrative Secretary] Bill Blair and tell him about that? He keeps track of that sort of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: My Deepest Secret | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...night last week Jan Drake draped herself in her best stone-marten stole and joined Little Augie for drinks at the Copa, then went on to a spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Finger Exercise | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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