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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of his military defeat, Jordan's Hussein cracked down hard on Egyptian and Communist agents among his country's half-million refugees and launched a campaign to propagandize the refugees on behalf of the United Nations in general and the U.S. in particular. The main line of exposition: You are obviously better off than before. The Communists want to turn you over to the Russians, and nobody knows how the Russians would be. Let's give the Americans a chance to show what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: The Homeless | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Hestnes, who inaugurated the HYRC State House Committee, says his main objective will be to bring the club into closer contact with the Massachusetts G.O.P...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: HYRC Opens Annual Race For President | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...Well," said his host, "I think you spent too much time describing Walter Price." (A practiced liar who went to Groton and Yale). "It seems as though he is your main character...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Visiting Novelist | 11/29/1957 | See Source »

...enormous assortment of vegetables will accompany the birds on the main course, and dining halls will serve the extra fare on tables decorated for the occasion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Halls Order 5000 Pounds Of Holiday Fowls for Thursday | 11/27/1957 | See Source »

...seems to have been near despair, guessing that the scheduled Easter Rising was foredoomed to failure. He actually hoped to prevent it, but it was too late. Foiled and captured, he had only one role left: to die. He did that in style. During his trial. Casement's main preoccupation was the speech he would make from the dock. It came out very well, almost as well as that of Robert Emmet to whom the Irish in America had often compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knight in Quicklime | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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