Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...site was war-ravaged wasteland and the villagers hopeless wanderers. What gave them life was the gift of a 68-year-old Philadelphia lawyer who does not believe in Christmas presents but does believe in President Eisenhower's idea that foreign aid can be on a person-to-person basis...
...fair way to become wealthy as a teenagers' guitar-thwonking singing idol. A few months ago he answered an ad in London's Daily Mirror that invited young musicians to "Just Dial FAME." FAME's mortal form, it turned out, is the chunky person of Paul Lincoln, an ex-wrestler and Soho coffee-bar proprietor who runs a stable of rock-'n'-roll yodelers, is the muse behind hugely successful Singer Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957). Lincoln heard tapes of Kris singing and playing folk songs he had written himself, quickly signed...
After a quick personal investigation of the evidence in the January riots. Van Hemelrijck decided that Joseph Kasavubu, 41, the fanatic leader of the ultranationalist Abako organization, had been falsely arrested for fomenting them. He ordered Kasavubu and two other Abako leaders released. Then he had the three men bundled onto a military plane loaded with paratroopers headed home on furlough. When the plane landed in Brussels, everyone from Premier Gaston Eyskens on down was astounded. Van Hemelrijck had done some daring things in his time, but no one had ever expected him to bring home in freedom the very...
...moments when he is noi haranguing Cubans in person, Fidel Castro passes the word through the columns of his mouthpiece newspaper, Revolutión. Last week, in a Page One Revolutión editorial, Castro gave the first real sign that he might heed the mounting chorus against his "war criminal" circus trials and grisly firing squads. "It is necessary," declared the editorial, "to put a quick end to the proceedings. The executions should be stopped...
...Jesus said: The kingdom of the Father is like a man who wanted to kill an important person; he drew his sword in his house, he pierced it through the wall to see if his hand would be steady; then he killed the important person...