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...Rock Island railroad removed the nation's first operative lightweight train, the Talgo-type Jet Rocket, from the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run, put it to carrying commuters on the short haul between Joliet and Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Lightweight | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Pakistan to Peoria. While poverty is as old as mankind, a new and resentful awareness of poverty on the part of millions has become one of the most powerful forces in soth century society. This "revolution of rising expectations," as Economist Staley called it, has only intensified the struggle to seek a more abundant life. In India, for example, the market for bicycles is booming upward at 30% a year, while shoe sales are rising only 4%. Explained one village bicycle salesman: "The villagers are getting lazy. They don't want to walk any more; they want bicycles." While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitalist Challenge: THE POPULATION EXPLOSION | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...since 1950, just before grand juries discovered that some of Bradley's stars were students not only of such esoteric subjects as music appreciation and square dancing but also point-shaving for gamblers, had Bradley sent a team east from Peoria to try its luck in the N.I.T. Determined to bring back Bradley's basketball pride, the team had started off with a Garden scoring record by trouncing Xavier 116-81, toying with Temple 94-66 to reach the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball Champions | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Politically, his opponent was not so much Adlai Stevenson as it was the Democratic Party. But from the time the President first took there was every indication that he would also defeat that foe. Everywhere he went-from Peoria to Portland. Ore. to Miami Philadelphia-cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The People's Choice | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...last week the magic kinship between Ike and the campaign crowds was hardly news, for the story could only be reported in round numbers, and the numbers rolled on from Peoria to Pittsburgh, from St. Paul to Portland. They rolled on just as they had in other years when the kinship was military, the numbers were millions, and the place names were London, Bizerte, Palermo, Salerno, Normandy and Bastogne. Probably no man in public life today has touched so many people in so many different ways as Dwight David Eisenhower. Yet, strangely, it is the sum total of Dwight Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EISENHOWER: In war or politics, a kinship with millions | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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