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...through the University of North Carolina by waiting on tables, Hodges left a career as a textile executive at 52 to help run the Marshall Plan in postwar West Germany. As Governor from 1954 to 1960, he was successful not only in guiding North Carolina through a pe riod of racial tension but also in attracting an impressive influx of industry-an achievement that helped earn him the Commerce post in John Kennedy's Cabinet. With characteristic vigor, he promoted exports to Communist countries, arguing: "Sell them anything they can eat, drink or smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1974 | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...calendar is divided into four element periods - Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Each pe riod is subdivided into three signs for a total of twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: What's My Sign? | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...constabulary would have done should I have tried to steal a cap or two. It is not hard for me to remember the good-humored way in which a group of London policemen would control the crowd, and I shudder when I think of the antics of last nights "riod squad." Perhaps a Harvard student would be naive to anticipate any other conduct on the part of the police having once heard their rankling over the PA system in the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail Box | 5/21/1952 | See Source »

...death of Drusus, 9 B.C. Knowledge of the contents of the lost books was derived from so-called periochae, or epitomes, an almost complete set of which was extant. The recovered books, it was said at Naples, were "destined to revolutionize the whole history of the Roman pe riod." Professor Delis also stated that Professor di Martino-Fusco had discovered two other codices of immense importance-rumored to be a First Century life of Christ, a life of St." Januarius, Patron of Naples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Livy Lives | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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