Word: marches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minnesota, Kansas, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Lubell's basic finding: the Midwest's farmers, who once had firm opinions about federal price-support programs, are now as baffled by the massive, $7 billion-a-year farm-glut scandal as the experts, the Eisenhower Administration and Congress (TIME, March 2). "Not a single farmer," Lubell reported last week for United Feature Syndicate, "could offer even a crackpot solution to the surplus problem." And a "sizable majority of farmers confessed they thought there might be no solution...
Accepted by the University of Puerto Rico for a year's graduate course in social work: Nathan Leopold, 54, a hospital laboratory technician in Puerto Rico since March 1958, when he was paroled from an Illinois prison after serving 33 years for teaming up with Richard Loeb (murdered in a jailhouse brawl) in the 1924 thrill killing of little Bobby Franks...
...requested that "on today, and on the first of each month, please send me a Warrant for the amount of my salary . . ." Placed on public view for the first time at week's end, the document bears witness anew to the honesty of Honest Abe. Inaugurated on March 4, 1861, Lincoln decided that his pay ($25,000 a year) should not have begun until the following day, his first full day in office. So he altered "first of the month" to "fifth," thus saved the taxpayers a tidy...
...weather, last summer had to close up shop in midseason. This summer, operating from a new site, it has come back stronger than ever. Last week, with the first Eastern performance of Handel's Semele and a performance of Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral (TIME, March 17, 1958), it had the look and the ebullient sound of the healthiest summer festival in the land...
...life-time-and-a-half as a professional sergeant in the regular U.S. Army. At 38. he holds his first commission in the 10th Cavalry* without pride. He maintains that he is color-blind-to black, red and white. But two fierce military actions teach him differently. A forced march through the badlands ends in heroics and madness, stewed rattlesnake and deep swallows of horses' blood. Finally, after many a deadly duel in the sun. comes a love feast among the minorities, which lifts this dryly authentic western onto a surprisingly high moral plain. English-born, Saskatchewan-raised Author...