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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sailed into Manila harbor, ostensibly to pick up a cargo of fruit for Australia. But Magsaysay's alert FBI-style National Bureau of Investigation had been tipped off that Lewin owned the ship, had signed on its crew and was aboard himself. They found him listed as second mate and refused to let him land. For the next two months Manila witnessed a bizarre spectacle. Lewin protested that he was being heartlessly separated from his loving wife in the Manila penthouse, eventually earned a hearing. Day after day Judge Bienvenido Tan journeyed out to Lewin's ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plug-Ugly American | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...controlled in 1960 by Catholics, all of whom have at least a slight hope for the vice-Presidential nomination. Each, of course, controls a significant block of votes, but Kennedy cannot use his greatest bargaining deal--votes in exchange for an endorsement for vice-President. A Catholic running mate for Kennedy, of course, would be out of the question to party politicians...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Catholicism and Kennedy | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

Actually, Ford will not lose its entire investment. Of the total, $100 million went for production facilities, which will be used to produce Ford's second entry into the compact-car field next spring. As a running mate for the Falcon, Ford plans a slightly larger, more luxurious compact model that it originally thought of calling the Edsel Comet. Now the new car will just be called the Comet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The $250 Million Flop | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Long Hot Summer ends as it begins--with Eula and her husband romping off to bed; but now everyone's happy, for similar sounds of merriment come from the two adjoining bedrooms, Clara's and Will Varner's (oh yes, he got a new bed-mate also...

Author: By Martin Nemirow, | Title: The Long, Hot Summer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Combs exploited a year of falling farm income by attacking his opponent, G.O.P. ex-Congressman (1952-58) John M. Robsion Jr., for pro-Benson votes while in the House-and never missed a chance to mispronounce Robsion's name "Ro-Ben-son." Combs's running mate for Lieutenant Governor, onetime Louisville Mayor Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, one of the founders of the left-wing Americans for Democratic Action, and Adlai Stevenson's 1952 campaign manager, piled an even bigger majority (498,278 to 308,622) upon Ballad Singer Pleaz Mobley, a G.O.P. candidate with songs aplenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kentucky Earthquake | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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