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Word: moves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Tie & Soap. Hagerty's first move was to shrink several hundred tour applications down to a manageable sum. In justice to all, he announced blandly, the White House would accredit all comers, but only one man from each news medium (the wire services and TV networks were allowed two reporters and two photographers each) would be put aboard Pan American's jet-powered Boeing 707 chartered for the press. The cost for transportation and hotels would be $4,000 per traveler, and a letter of application would be considered a contract for that amount. After this announcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle Orders | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...educate other Georgia children while their own are barred from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans ask: Why wait for disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reality in Atlanta | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Blows (Zenith International). A small boy stands at the bottom of a giant tin can, the centrifuge in an amusement park. As the can begins to spin, the centrifugal force moves him to the outer walls. Faster and faster it goes. Soon the boy can move neither backward nor forward; he is the prisoner of the machine. Searching for freedom, he scrambles along the walls upside down. The machine, he discovers, has repealed the natural law that keeps his feet on the ground. It has robbed him of all relationship to the true center of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Reserve books will not be allowed outside the library under the three-hour system, although the Student Council committee proposed such a move. However, Paul H. Buck, Director of the University Library, said yesterday that this provision "will be considered in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Group Approves New Reserve Book Limit | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

...were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major objective, Caen, in the first days if he had chosen to move instead of sitting.) After the breakout, Brookie was again peeved. Why didn't Ike let Monty take the bulk of the armies and finish off the Germans in the Ruhr? Instead, Ike insisted on forming up along the Rhineland, fighting wherever he found the enemy in force. The Battle of the Bulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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