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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look carried over to the postconference briefing session with newsmen. Where Knowland had often been barely able to hide his distaste for key parts of the Eisenhower program, the new leaders seemed downright enthusiastic. Said Charlie Halleck: "We were all impressed with the attainability of a balanced budget without sacrifice or injury to essential programs of Government. If we can hold the line on this program, it means not only will we have a good economic year but that the cost of living can be stabilized and held down." Added Everett Dirksen, signaling a new day in the relationships between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Men, New Views | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...tort-trials is in his use of "demonstrative evidence," i.e., visual aids. He will take his skeleton, named "Elmer," into the courtroom and show the jury by experts' testimony exactly where plaintiff broke a bone, then stalk to his portable blackboard to draw diagrams of the accident scene. Often he chalks figures to justify the damages he is demanding-so much per hour for pain, so much for medical bills, so much in lost wages, etc., etc.-occasionally makes a deliberate mistake in addition, so as to let an alert juryman or a judge correct his arithmetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Plaintiff's Counsel | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Battle of Britain, Londoners proved their readiness to queue if necessary and to bear steadfastly whatever had to be put up with. In the piping times of peace, rather than create an un-English "fuss," Londoners have often submitted to arbitrary indignities that would outrage a Stoic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolt in the Underground | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Teetering on a one-vote majority in the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's Christian Democratic Premier Amintore Fanfani has often cast longing eyes toward the 84 left-wing Socialist seats controlled by wily, 67-year-old Pietro Nenni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Break | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...only too well, the slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view of things upon his countrymen. Obedient to his wishes, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party cleared the way for his resignation as Prime Minister of Ireland by nominating him for the largely honorific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Dev Steps Aside | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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