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...P.W.S did in Korea ... the Advisory Committee seems to have come to the conclusion that the cause was a lack of education in the fundamentals of American democracy. Is this argument valid? These men were asked to fight for an America which had allowed a Communistic Russia to overrun Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc., while talking loudly, but acting ineffectively. They were asked to fight for their country which had allowed aircraft to be fired upon and even shot down, while the U.S. did nothing more than wave a useless piece of paper demanding retribution. Is this a lack of education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1955 | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Once more the absence of Little Mo Connolly put the women's championship up for grabs. Everyone seemed to have a chance. First, second-seeded Louise Brough was upset by tiny Belmar Gunderson; then third-seeded Beverly Baker Fleitz was overrun by 17-year-old Junior Champion Barbara Breit. In the end, though, steady Doris Hart held on to her title. In a one-sided final, she whipped England's Pat Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Better Than Ever | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...cold in Florida that the mink stoles and silver-fox jackets were not just for show. But while the weather was cold, the betting was hot. Eleven miles as the helicopter flies from Miami's glossy, crowded ocean-front hotels stands spacious Hialeah, overrun by footsore fugitives from crammed Northern tracks. Last week Hialeah presented one of the biggest, CinemaScopiest spectacles to be found on any U.S. race track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Drama at Flamingo Lake | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...Democratic Party? The withholding of vital information from the commanding officers in Honolulu which resulted in the disastrous Pearl Harbor defeat . . . The refusal to let General MacArthur whip the enemy in North Korea when he had them on the run (of course, the invitation to the Communists to overrun South Korea was even worse, as it precipitated the whole inexcusable mess). If these two specific actions aren't treason, make the least of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...They have far more sense than to start an atomic war which will lead to their own destruction." He predicted that in three years Russia would attain atomic equality with the West. Heretofore, he declared, only U.S. superiority in nuclear weapons has prevented the free world from being overrun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Man Between | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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