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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking a pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Mother Is Bugged at Me | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...Olympic Year, and if there were a pot-bellied stove in the lobby of the indoor Athletic Building, it's likely that old Harvard men would be sitting there discussing the good old times, past Olympic years...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

...committed to the principle of national origins, which in many ways is as selfish and unjust as the liberals last week said it was. But in all the debate, nobody has appeared with a substitute principle that has much chance of acceptance by those already in the melting pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Code for the Melting Pot | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...Eskimo Pies* and hotdogs kept warm on freshly poured pigs of aluminum, while a high-school band blared Whistle While You Work. Reynolds Metals' pudgy, 43-year-old President Richard S. Reynolds Jr.† had something to whistle about: he now has the world's biggest aluminum pot-line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: End of a Shortage | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...Captain William Henry Smith Grant, a kilted, decorated veteran of two wars,† never made a blend in his life, and neither did his distilling forebears-father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Their only product was, and still is, pure malt whisky, slowly distilled from barley in old-fashioned pot stills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: The Quintessence | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

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