Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER the U.S. airlift saved West Berlin a decade ago, a monument was erected to the men who lost their lives taking supplies to the beleaguered city. Last week, as West Berliners gathered at that monument to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the airlift's success, the man who led them was this week's cover subject, Mayor Willy Brandt, who was little known to the world ten years...
...Lewis roared for three hours. Here was the same spavined warrior who had learned tactics at the knee of Sam Gompers, who had campaigned fervently for, then violently against Franklin Roosevelt, had regularly undermined the economy with his coal strikes (statisticians blame his miners for 25% of all workdays lost by strikes in the 22 years before 1949). Here was the rebel who had founded the C.I.O., left it, rejoined the A.F.L., left it ("TheA.F.L. has no head; its neck just growed and haired over"). There were flashes of the old defiant Lewis who had traded hot words with Federal...
...Congress has even lost much of its old control of the national purse, historically the basic and decisive power of Parliaments. In 1957's Battle of the Budget, Congress huffed and puffed about cutting, but when the din died away, the President's budget was only nicked and scratched...
...cold-eyed professional who wants to deliver Kentucky delegates to his good friend Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas. Losing campaign manager of the primary that Happy won 24 years ago, Clements later beat Chandler forces to become state political boss (1947-55) and U.S. Senator (1950-56). He lost his Senate seat in the 1956 general election to Republican Thruston B. Morton; Enemy Chandler cheerfully takes the credit for switching the critical Democratic votes. In his grim drive to take state party control back from Chandler and control the 1960 delegation, Clements has spent many a day away from...
Parks declared last night that prospects for next year are encouraging. "This year's freshman team lost only once, and we have about eight starters returning," he said...