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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story was assigned to TIME'S Science editor, Jonathan Norton Leonard. Like his recent cover stories on Astronomer Edwin Hubble (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948) and Jet Pilot Charles Yeager (TIME, April 18), this one meant that he had to immerse himself quickly in a serious, highly technical...
...keep the confidence of his people. If Washington ever gets a vigorous Asiatic policy it might be able to bypass Chiang. Meanwhile, defeated or not, discredited or not, Chiang at least made more sense than any statement on Asia that has come out of the U.S. State Department in recent months...
...fact was that, except for foreign policy, the 81st Congress was proving to be one of the most unmanaged & unmanageable Congesses in recent times. No one man, no one group ran the show-neither the Fair Dealers, the Southern diehards, Taft's moderate Republicans, nor Kenneth Wherry's Midwestern tories, nor any permanent coalition of them...
...impassioned oratory, the party agreed that it must proceed carefully so as not to lose its legal standing. One speaker defined the party's task: "To dream of a perfect, serene, ideal world preceded by years of torment and contemplation of spiritual ideals." Despite its recent gains, M.S.I, was still more notable for dreaming than action...
...fighting, slaughtered for cowardice, or-very rarely-pardoned for1 extreme bravery and sent back to live out their lives as seed bulls). Los diablos negros (the black devils) of La Punta have charged the capes of Belmonte, Manolete, and most of the other great and near-great of recent bullring history. Businesswise, La Punta's long gamble is rewarded by orders for about 35 corridas (six bulls, with two held in reserve) a season. It charges as much as 40,000 pesos ($4,624) a corrida, a price that few other ranches could...