Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since Nov. 5, the day alter the 1958 elections, President Eisenhower had stayed mostly out of public view, vacationing at Augusta, working on his State of the Union message and on the budget for the next fiscal year. Nearly 250 newsmen therefore looked sharply, listened closely to the President last week at his 145th White House news conference. They found him looking well, shedding even-toned but sometimes less than brilliant light on a dozen or so subjects before the nation. Among them...
...increase in minimum wages, and a 30% pay boost for the army and government employees, effective immediately. Playing Santa Claus would raise Brazil's record budget deficit of $285 million, but the news of the proposed wage hike ended the recent rash of cost-of-living riots (TIME, Nov...
Setting a suggestively useful precedent for unhorsed Asian statesmen, ex-Premier U Nu of Burma, who recently turned over his governmental burdens to General Ne Win (TIME, Nov. 10), donned saffron robes, humbly appeared with shaven head for his ordination as a Buddhist priest in Rangoon...
...writing, clever as it was, seemed to Broadway audiences no more than piquant sauce at a histrionic banquet for two of the theater's most exquisitely mannered scenery chewers: Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman, who played all four of the show's principal parts (TIME, Nov. 5, 1956). Obviously, the movie people could not hope to match that, so they set out to do better-by providing their picture with one of the screen's most gifted young directors, Delbert (Bachelor Party) Mann, and with what is surely the year's most brilliantly glittering cast...
...write this book," he said weeks ago, before the Kremlin clamped down. "These 40 years of storm were calling for an incarnation." In his token submission to Nikita Khrushchev and Pravda (TIME, Nov. 10-17), Pasternak recanted not a line of his book, expressed not a moment's regret that it has been published outside Russia. To a German reporter who saw him for a few moments after the Nobel announcement and the resulting political storm, Pasternak said: "I am sorry, I didn't want this to happen, all this noise . . . But I am glad I wrote this...