Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else, he began to do the jump-up. "Trinidad's music," he says, "is extraverted stuff that knocks you off your pins. It makes you jump up; mine-well, you just sit down...
...Governor Christian A. (for Archibald) Herter (TIME, Feb. 20) was asked: "Would you accept No. 2 place on the ticket?" Pointedly, Herter replied: "I would like to be excused from answering that. The President is entitled to have the man he chooses . . . Dick Nixon is a good friend of mine...
Convinced by uncontested evidence of his Communist Party membership, a Denver jury two months ago decided that Maurice E. Travis, ex-secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, had perjured himself by filing the non-Communist affidavits required of union leaders by the Taft-Hartley Act. Last week, up for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, Travis, 45, drew eight years in prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife...
...burly Zulu named Elifasi Msomi. A young witch doctor who was not doing very well at his trade, he went to another witch doctor for advice, and there, he said, he found Tikoloshe masquerading as the man's son. "You will go with this son of mine," said the elder doctor, "and get me the blood of 15 people to help my chemist shop. First I want the blood of a girl...
...Voice of the Turtle. In New Orleans, two notices appeared in the personals column of the Times-Picayune: 1) "Not responsible for debts contracted by my wife. Myrtle Berner. William Berner." 2) "William P. Berner was never responsible for my debts. I paid mine and his also. Myrtle Berner...