Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sanctuary. In Edmonton, Alta., arrested for causing a disturbance in a family squabble, Mark Wing got a six-month suspended sentence after he pleaded: "Please, I want to spend my life in jail rather than return to my wife...
...that in 1955, 1956 and 1957, Dwight Eisenhower suffered a series of serious illnesses-and it is a matter of medical fact that such illnesses take something out of the victim. But the Dwight Eisenhower everyone was praising last week did not just magically appear last week, or last month...
...weirdest bill: a Democratic-sponsored measure to establish, in prosperous 1959, a federal youth-conservation corps modeled after the New Deal's Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps. Under its terms, some 150,000 males, aged 16 to 21, would eventually serve for terms ranging from six months to two years, receive $60 a month, plus room, board and transportation. The bill had about as much chance of beating a veto as the Washington Senators have of winning the World Series...
Pollster George Gallup, in a canvass taken since Nixon's return from Russia and Poland, reported that Nixon, among both Republican and independent voters, had significantly increased his margin over Rockefeller in the past month...
...skidded from $1,068,000,000 in 1951 to $792 million in fiscal 1958. Clayton, still the biggest stockholder (he and his family own 40% worth $52 million), tangled with President Whittington and Chairman and Chief Executive Lamar Fleming Jr. over ways to start the curve up again, last month stepped out of retirement and put himself back on the board...