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Little else disturbs the bustling, multiracial complex of Hawaii today. Even racial tension, in a spot where there are no fewer than 64 crossbreeds of humans, is less worrisome than that in the U.S. South; Hawaii's intensely loyal 185,000 Japanese sent thousands of their sons to war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HAWAII: The Land & the People | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Ever since last month's national elections, in which most of his own candidates won in a walkaway. Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat has been casting around for a suitable Premier. Last week, between bouts with a chronically bad liver, Marshal Sarit named his man: stocky, mild-mannered, 46...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Trusted Hands | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

EILEEN RODGERS is a pretty, 24-year-old song belter-whose belting is the wide, black-leather kind worn by unruly teenagers-signed up a couple of years ago by Columbia's bearded bush-beater, Mitch Miller. One of the best of the polysyllabic-vowel school, e.g., "There'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Canaries | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

The Democratic high command passed up a chance to do some political back-scratching when it picked the convention keynoter for 1956, instead settled on a man judged to be the party's liveliest young speaker: Tennessee's 36-year-old Governor Frank Clement. Frank Clement, student of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smite 'Em! | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

In his travels, Stevenson shook many a hand, ate many a doughnut, seemed generally folksy despite occasional lapses into such polysyllabic gobbledygook as when, at Fergus Falls, he accused the Administration of "disingenuous dissembling" in its foreign policy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The High & Low Roads | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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