Word: ruckuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew better, reportedly including Sir Winston himself-or so Author Herald said he had it from the Daily Mail editor. In Paris, where Newsman Herald lives, he admitted that he had not seen or talked with Sir Winston in putting together his story. But he dismissed the whole ruckus with a simple explanation: "Churchill obviously does not like it to be known that he is growing...
While the ruckus about the Dixon-Yates power contract roared on in Capitol Hill committee rooms last week, the President of the U.S. and the mayor of Memphis met at the White House for a sensible discussion of the question. Democratic Mayor Frank Tobey told President Eisenhower that Memphis is wholly sincere in its plan to build a steam plant that will replace the power drawn from the Tennessee Valley Authority by the Atomic Energy Commission. By building its own plant, Memphis will be assured of power without Dixon-Yates. Since this fitted the Eisenhower policy of local rather than...
Along with 24 other military policemen at Alaska's Fort Richardson, Army Private First Class G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 27, of last year's Army-McCarthy ruckus, was upped to corporal, got his pay raised to $122.30 a month...
...than most dramatists could invent, and in Bryan's subsequent collapse a twist that few dramatists would dare to. And with the help of Peter Larkin's highly ingenious set, the play creates a graphic town picture of where once the embattled fundamentalist stood and started a ruckus heard 'round the world...
...wherever he preaches salvation, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Oct. 25) unwittingly made some British enemies. Up to his nonclerical collar in a "Tell Scotland" crusade, Graham found himself in the rough, both on a Scottish golf course and in the minds of England's organized animal lovers. The ruckus began when he started a BBC broadcast with a bland enough statement: "Fishes belong to the sea, animals belong to the jungle, human beings belong to God." But to Britain's buffalo-chip-on-shoulder League Against Cruel Sports, these were fighting words. More fuel was poured into...