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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The crucifixion of Charles Van Doren is horrible testimony to the immaturity of our culture. Having idolized a brilliant man, people now ridicule him as they discover he is not the god they pretended but very much human. Van Doren didn't glorify himself; such publicity can't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Off & Running. In London, Accountant Francis George Swain, 46, got a two-year prison stretch for embezzling about $8,400 in animal-welfare funds from the Blue Cross-Our Dumb Friends League, got no leniency for having shot the wad betting on such dumb friends as greyhounds and race horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Asked at his Augusta news conference whether he thought that the U.S.'s longest nationwide steel strike proved the inadequacy of the Taft-Hartley law, President Eisenhower replied that he did not "think Taft-Hartley is necessarily any cure for this thing. If we can't settle our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: On Two Tracks | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Burlington, Vt., Oct. 21 (UPI).-The mayors of Burlington and Rutland, Vt. said they would buy plane tickets home from Florida at their own expense because the Air Force junket they were on was a "fraud, a terrible waste of tax money." . . ."It's a damned outrage [said Rutland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Tale of Two Mayors | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Cutting Sarlc. At once tempers flared. Monaco's Ollivier urged that the Little Four be expanded to the Little Seven with the addition of the Vatican, Luxembourg and Sark, the last a semi-autonomous island in the English Channel with .. population of 450. The baron protested that Sark has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Other Fellows | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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