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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the thin, -104°F. air he fell freely, first face down, then atumble, then on his back-1,000, 5,000, 10,000 ft.-reaching a flashing terminal velocity of about 450 m.p.h. As he plummeted, he took readings on his instruments, and with cool self-possession, tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Descent to the Future | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

In the midst of the curbstone babble, a Brooklyn cab driver shrugged: "It's a corrupt city. You gotta expect things like this. Everybody in this city has his hand out. Everybody's takin'. Nobody's givin'."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Cheaters | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

One by One. Every Sunday the Clutters took two neighboring farmers' teenage daughters to the Methodist Church in Garden City, seven miles from the Clutter farm. When the two girls knocked on the door of the Clutter house on Sunday morning last week, nobody answered. The only explanation they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: in Cold Blood | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Unsurprisingly, Californian Nixon's greatest strength was in the Midwest and Far West, where he was running 55 to 45 ahead of Jack Kennedy. In Kennedy's own East, the gap was narrower, but Nixon led Kennedy, 52 to 48. Only in the South was Kennedy out front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Already pressing voter-registration suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL RIGHTS: To the Roots | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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