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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father of the "Teddy bear" was the Washington Post's Cartoonist Clifford Berryman (1869-1949) who, in 1902, was moved by T.R.'s refusal to shoot a cub during a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi. The wedding reception incident four years later did a lot to popularize Berryman's baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Fellow. Lyndon Johnson has never ridden higher, and he should be a happy man. But he is not, and he may never be. He sits at his command-post desk in Office G14, Senate wing, U.S. Capitol, restless with energy, tumbling with talk. He flashes gold cuff links, fiddles with the gold band of a gold wristwatch, toys with a tiny gold pillbox, tinkers with a gold desk ornament. And he glances often at the green wall, where hangs Edmund Burke's framed warning about the vexations of leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sense & Sensitivity | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Such banishments are commonplace in post-revolution Hungary. The police knock, and later a Western visitor notices that some person he has known has disappeared. Most Hungarians tapped by the police leave when ordered, and quietly; the alternative is jail. In the nightclubs patronized by foreigners, the bar girls are new, placed there by the police to watch and listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Smooth Surface | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Present planning is that Minuteman will be grouped in batteries of 50 missiles, controlled from one command post, and with individual missiles dispersed to the point that an enemy five-megaton hit on the installation would theoretically take out no more than one Minuteman missile. Each missile will be countdown-ready at all times, will be hooked up electronically to the underground battery command post so that any defect can be spotted. If a red sensing-light flashes trouble, the sick missiles will be removed, replaced at once and repaired at a specially built factory not more than 500 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Second Generation | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...also disappointed in the inactivity of Mohammed Hatta (who in the midst of last week's maneuvering was discovered quietly lecturing on Islamic history at the University of Indonesia). "Hatta is the undertaker," said Sjafruddin bitterly. "He'll sit quietly while the corpse dies, then conduct a post-mortem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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