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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squared himself for the long, rough run toward 1960. Nixon's political situation had changed overnight. On Nov. 4 he stood virtually unchallenged for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960. On Nov. 5 he could look over his shoulder and see a red-hot potential contender in the person of New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who ran up a sensational 557,000-vote win in Democratic territory even as California Republicans-including a Nixon protege for attorney general-were getting shredded all across the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: And Then There Were Two | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...gubernatorial candidate?" Then on the front page of the final edition, on the night before election, Post readers got a furious Schiff assault on Harriman: "Governor Harriman's recent snide insinuation that Nelson Rockefeller is pro-Arab and anti-Israel should not be condoned by any fair-minded person . . . If you agree with me, do not vote for Averell Harriman tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free Speech for the Boss | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...disappointment. The plot is built on a theme that seems to have an obsessive fascination for Composer-Librettist Menotti: the maimed (in this case blinded) hero who is loved and finally destroyed by a beautiful woman. "I'm apt," says Menotti, "to express myself as a spiritually crippled person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blind, Burning & Bland | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Smith is equally terse in social conversation. A visitor who recently had lunch with him asked what kind of work his father had done. Answered Smith: "As little as possible." Asked what sort of person his mother was, he replied: "Well, I liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jets Across the U.S. | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...some schools the success of the program depends on one interested person, and if that person moves away, as a member of the Lexington system did, that school has no hesitation about pulling out of the project. Cambridge, the most logical place for the HUT, has shown no interest so far, but Herzog hopes as the project gains stature Cambridge will become involved. Cambridge schools, significantly, have not accepted apprentice teachers from the MAT program at the Graduate School of Education either...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Volunteer Teachers Aid Local Schools | 11/15/1958 | See Source »

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