Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tinker to Evers to Chance. In Chicago, transit authority detectives spied Robert Hinton picking a pocket at a crowded bus stop, held off long enough to let Franklin Palmer pick Hinton's pocket, then arrested both...
...Scots. Early next morning, the President was in Scotland. Through the rolling fields of Ayrshire, across moors and heaths, skirting the cottage of Poet Robert Burns, the President drove to battlemented Culzean (pronounced Cul-lane) Castle high on its cliff above the Firth of Clyde. Three months after the war, the Scottish people presented to the President a nine-room apartment on the castle's top floor. Visiting the place in 1951, Mamie Eisenhower had said: "It's like a fairy tale-the kind we read about in Grimm's story book." Now, greeted by the Marquess...
...bill (even though it had been beefed up in a floor fight led by Arkansas' John McClellan), and the Kennedy bill passed the Senate 90-1. President Eisenhower's power and prestige were committed to the sterner bill sponsored by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin which he had bulled through the House (229-201) with his effective television appeal (TIME, Aug. 17). Few old hands on Capitol Hill believed that Conference Chairman Kennedy could close the wide gaps between the two without losing control of his committee, letting the bill go back to both...
...Clutch. In Los Angeles, Robert Patrick was arrested after he grew tired of waiting in a bus for the driver to return, drove off with it himself...
...WORKERS. Most can hold out another month without pain. Said Cleveland Banker Robert Mazanek: "The steelworkers' way of life today includes a strike every couple of years, and they save for it." Many strikers own houses, are borrowing against them instead of carving into their savings. In some steel towns, only 25% of the strikers applied for free surplus food, and only half of those bothered to pick up their allotments. But other workers are hurting, lining up for state unemployment aid, living off their wives' jobs. Only a handful get emergency help from the United Steelworkers...