Word: reads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Topsham, Me. (pop. 3,500), Colonel Robert F. Carter, a 60-year-old West Pointer, is busily pursuing a hobby that reaches into the past and the future and extends around the world. Colonel Carter's determination is to read every article that has ever appeared in TIME. In the past three years, the retired Army officer has collected all but about 70 of the 1,887 issues TIME has published since it began on March...
Rueful John. Backstopping McClellan, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen dramatically read to the Senate a letter from a union official threatening an Illinois company with extinction unless its employees joined the Teamsters. Oregon's Wayne Morse, grey-black eyebrows beetling over angry grey eyes, retorted acidly that a blow against peaceful picketing was a blow against "the cardinal principle of freedom of speech." Kennedy himself, now back in command, came striding down the center aisle to the Senate's well to argue against the amendment's sweeping nature. "I myself would be forced to vote against the bill...
...attend the swearing-in of Foster Dulles as a new $20,000-a-year special consultant to the President with full Cabinet rank. Because Dulles tires easily, the small group at the ceremony-Ike, Dulles, Nixon, Herter, Janet Dulles and a few others-sat down while the President read to Dulles this citation: "Your willingness to continue to contribute your abundant talents and unique experience to the service of the U.S. and the free world is but one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation's welfare...
...paper's future, Miss Connor considered the "whole business a futile effort." She pointed out that when Percussion was formed in the Fall, "there was plenty of enthusiasm, but no work. One person canont put out a good paper when she has to write all the copy and headlines, read galleys and work with the printer, she explained...
Pusey's letter may be read before the Senate as part of an organized protest against the controversial section 1001, sub-section (f) of the Act, which Pusey termed "rude and unworthy of the Congress." It requires that the applicant file an affidavit certifying that "he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government" by unconstitutional methods...