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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By the hundreds of thousands, the people swarmed about the President, engulfing him in seas of teeming, shouting, cheering bodies. They sang and they danced, they performed ancient and breathless feats of prowess in his honor, and they overwhelmed him with music and food and flowers. Their leaders uttered thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: American Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In normal days, John Eisenhower's wife, with only part-time help, runs her own house in Gettysburg (at the edge of Ike's farm). She gets three (of four) children off to public school, does her grocery shopping at a supermarket, tries to spend a day a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Mother in the Spotlight | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Truman's first job was to introduce the seven Democratic presidential possibles, and he plainly wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disenchanted Evening | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

¶ The U.S.'s Paul Hoffman, pioneer administrator of the Marshall Plan and now managing director of the United Nations Special Fund, saw a need for a coordinated global effort to replace sporadic philanthropy. Said Hoffman: "All countries, whether their incomes are high, medium or low, must in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A New Tide | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Mission to India. In past days, proposals to pool foreign aid have met with congressional insistence that there should be Made-in-U.S.A. labels on all gifts sent abroad in order to win cold-war advantage. And until lately, European nations have talked poor mouth (Italy, for example, likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A New Tide | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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