Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other cover stories have been fast-breaking narratives of a man in the week's news, as at the time when Tito was host to Bulganin and Khrushchev in the spring of 1955, or the detailed exposition of an involved political situation, as in the Eden cover (TIME, Nov. 19) at the height of the Suez crisis. This week's cover story, says Baker, had to combine most of these elements...
...prominent Negro churches and the homes of two antisegregationist ministers-one of them white. The ministers: the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, right-hand man to the Rev. Martin Luther King during the year-long boycott that had preceded last month's Supreme Court victory on bus integration (TIME, Nov. 26); and the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor of a Negro Lutheran church and also an active boycott leader. No one was injured, but Graetz and his family might well have been slaughtered as they ran from the house in panic; in their front yard police found still another bomb...
...largest theater chains, but will remain as president of Loew's International, the corporation's foreign subsidiary. By quitting before the annual stockholders' meeting Feb. 28, Loew, son of Founder Marcus Loew, hoped to head off a long-brewing proxy fight (TIME, Nov. 12) with a dissident group of stockholders led by Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's largest individual stockholder (250,000 shares). To appease the Tomlinson faction, the present management, headed by President Joseph R. Vogel, agreed on a slate to be presented to the stockholders. The tentative lineup: six directors for management...
...Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help...
...Marcelino. A miracle play filled with a shining sweetness, made in Spain (TIME, Nov...